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Current Position: University Lecturer in Economics, and Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Lincoln College.
Research Interests:
Labour Economics: wage determination and labour contracts;
equilibrium search and matching models; human capital theory; vocational
training policy. Public Economics: provision of public services; health;
education.
"An Empirical Study of Sales Rates and Prices in Impressionist and Contemporary Art Auctions" (with Orley Ashenfelter and Katy Graddy)
"New Microfoundations for the Aggregate Matching Function", forthcoming, International Economic Review, 2007.
"The Impact of School Inputs on Student Performance: an Empirical Study of Private Schools in the United Kingdom" (with Katy Graddy), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 58(3), pp.435-451, 2005 (link to earlier version).
"The Assessment: Education" (with Steve Machin) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, v. 20(2), pp. 157-172, 2004.
"Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms' Strategies for Recruitment and Retention", Review of Economic Studies, v. 71(2), pp 535-551, 2004 (link to earlier version).
"Earnings Functions, Specific Human Capital and Job Matching: Tenure Bias is Negative", Journal of Labor Economics, v. 21(4), pp. 783-805, 2003 (link to earlier version).
"The Assessment: Financing and Managing Public Services" (with Paul Grout) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, v.19(2), pp. 215-234, 2003.
"Should Firms be Required to Pay for Vocational Training?", Economic Journal, v. 111, pp. 485-505, 2001 .
"Human Capital Theory and UK Vocational Training Policy", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, v.15(1), pp. 16-32, 1999.
"Transferable Training and Poaching Externalities", in A. Booth and D. Snower (eds), Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, their Symptoms, and Policy Responses, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"A Theoretical Model of On-the-Job Training with Imperfect Competition", Oxford Economic Papers, v.46, pp. 537-562, 1994.
"An Investment Model for the Supply of Training", Economic Journal, v. 104, pp. 556-70, 1994.
"Labour Contracts and Efficiency in On-the-Job Training", Economic Journal, v.104, pp.408-20, 1994.
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