Publications by date

Forthcoming

"Why Immigration Policy Is Hard and How To Make It Better", Polity Press link
“Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration,” (with Michael Amior), Economic Journal link.
“Vacancy Duration and Wages” (with Ihsaan Bassier and Barbara Petrongolo), Review of Economics and Statistics link.
“Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle” (with Felix Koenig and Barbara Petrongolo), Review of Economics and Statistics link.

2025

“Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Account for Round Number Bunching in the Wage Distribution”(with Arin Dube and Suresh Naidu), American Economic Review link.
“Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark” (with Mathias Jensen), American Economic Journal (Applied) link.
“The Immobile Incumbent Problem in a Model of Short-Term Wage-Posting,” German Economic Review Special Issue on Monopsony link.

2024

“Subjective Job Insecurity and the Rise of the Precariat: Evidence from the UK, Germany and the United States”, (with Graham Mazeine) Review of Economics and Statistics link
“Ethnic Minority and Migrant Pay Gaps Over the Life-Cycle” (with Tessa Hall and Rebecca Rose) Oxford Review of Economic Policy link.
“Diversity and Social Capital Within the Workplace: Evidence from Britain” (with Thomas Breda), Industrial Relations link.

2023

“Commuting for Crime” (with Monica Langella and Tom Kirchmaier), Economic Journal, link.
“Diffusion of Social Values Through the Lens of US Newspapers,” (with Paolo Masella) ; Journal of Law Economics and Organization. link

2022

Residential Mobility and Unemployment in the UK (2022). Labour Economics. [Link]
Monopsony in Local Labour Markets (2022). The IFS Deaton Review. [Link]

2021

“The Measure of Monopsony,” (with Monica Langella) ; Journal of the European Economic Association. link
“Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Review,” ; Industrial and Labor Relations Review . link
“The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage,” ; Journal of Economic Perspectives. link
“The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets,” (with Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn and Michael Oberfichtner) ; March 2019. link

2020

“Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Review,” ; Industrial and Labor Relations Review . link

2019

“Diversity and Neighbourhood Satisfaction,” (with Monica Langella) ; Economic Journal . link
“Robot Arithmetic: New Technology and Wages,” (with Francesco Caselli) ; American Economic Review: Insights . link

2018

“The Persistence of Local Joblessness,” (with Michael Amior) American Economic Review. link

2017

“How Local are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model,” (with Barbara Petrongolo) American Economic Review. link

2016

“The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment,” (with David Autor and Christopher Smith) American Economic Journal (Applied). link

2014

“Explaining Job Polarization,” (with Maarten Goos and Anna Salomons) American Economic Review. link

2013

“One Nation Under a Groove? Identity and Multiculturalism in Britain,” (with Andreas Georgiadis) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. link
“Minimum Wages: A View from the UK,” Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik. link

2012

“The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain,” (with Marco Manacorda and Jonathan Wadsworth) Journal of the European Economic Association. link
“Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries,” (with Ghazala Azmat and John van Reenen) Economica. link
“Spend It Like Beckham? Inequality and Redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004,” (with Andreas Georgiadis) Public Choice. link
“Cultural Integration in the United Kingdom,” (with Andreas Georgiadis) in Y.Algan, A.Bisin, A.Manning and T.Verdier (eds) Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford University Press. link

2011

“Imperfect Competition in Labour Markets,” in O.Ashenfelter and D.Card (eds) Handbook of Labor Economics, volume 4, North-Holland. link
“Change and Continuity Among Minority Communities in Britain,” (with Andreas Georgiadis) Journal of Population Economics. link

2010

“The Plant Size-Place Effect: Monopsony and Agglomeration,” Journal of Economic Geography . link
“Understanding the Gender Pay Gap: What's Competition Got to Do with It?,” (with Farzad Saidi) Industrial and Labor Relations Review. link
“The Economic Situation of Immigrants and their Children in France, Germany and the UK,” (with Yann Algan, Christian Dustmann, and Albrecht Glitz) Economic Journal Features. link
“Culture Clash or Culture Club: The Identity and Values of Immigrants in Britain,” (with Sanchari Roy) Economic Journal Features. link

2009

“You Can't Always Get what you want: the Impact of the UK Jobseeker?s Agreement,” Labour Economics . link
“Job Polarization in Europe,” (with Maarten Goos and Anna Salomons) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings . link

2008

“The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain,&rdquo (with Barbara Petrongolo); Ecoonmic Journal Features . link
“The Gender Gap in Early-Career Wage Growth,” (with Joanna Swaffield) Economic Journal . link

2007

“Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain, ” (with Maarten Goos); Review of Economics and Statistics . link
“Just Can't Get Enough: More on Skill-Biased Change and Unemployment,” (with Marco Manacorda) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics . link

2006

“The incidence of UK housing benefit: Evidence from the 1990s reforms,&rdquo (with Stephen Gibbons); Journal of Public Economics . link
“The Gender Gap in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries,” (with Ghazala Azmat and Maia Guell) Journal of Labor Economics . link
“A Generalised Model of Monopsony,” Economic Journal . link

2005

“Monopsony and Labour Demand,” Brussels Economic Review . link

2004

“A Test of Competitive Labor Market Theory: The Wage Structure among Care Assistants in the South of England,” (with Stephen Machin); Industrial and Labor Relations Review . link
“Has The National Minimum Wage Reduced UK Wage Inequality?,” (with Richard Dickens) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A . link
“Spikes and Spill-overs: The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Wage Distribution in a Low-Wage Sector,” (with Richard Dickens) Economic Journal Conference Papers . link
“Monopsony and the efficiency of labour market interventions,” Labour Economics . link
“We Can Work It Out: The Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low-Skill Workers,” Scottish Journal of Political Economy . link
“Instrumental Variables in Models with Binary Treatment Effects: A Simple Exposition,” Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy . link
“Mobility and Joblessness,” (with Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin) in R.Blundell, D.Card and R.Freeman (eds) Seeking a Premier League Economy . link

2003

"Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets", Princeton University Press link
“Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: The Introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Sector ,” (with Stephen Machin and Lupin Rahman); Journal of the European Economic Association . link
“The Real Thin Theory: Monopsony in Modern Labour Markets,” Labour Economics . link

2002

“Oligopsony & Monopsonistic Competition in Labor Markets,” (with V. Bhaskar and Ted To); Journal of Economic Perspectives . link

2001

“Labour Supply, Search and Taxes,” Journal of Public Economics . link
“Everything under a Fiver: Recruitment and Retention in lower paying labor markets,” (with D.Brown, R.Dickens, P.Gregg and S.Machin) ; Joseph Rowntree Foundation . link

2000

“Pretty Vacant: Recruitment in a Low-Wage Labour Market,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics . link
“Movin' On Up: Interpreting the Earnings-Experience Profile,” Bulletin of Economic Research . link

1999

“The Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and Evidence from Britain,” (with Richard Dickens and Stephen Machin); Journal of Labor Economics . link
“The Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment in Europe,” (with Stephen Machin); in O.Ashenfelter and D.Card (eds) Handbook of Labor Economics . link

1998

“Estimating the Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment from the Distribution of Wages: A Critical View,” (with Richard Dickens and Stephen Machin); Labour Economics . link

1997

“Skill-Biassed Change, Unemployment and Inequality,” (with Paul Gregg); European Economic Review . link
“Can Supply Create its Own Demand?,” (with Stephen Machin); European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings . link
“Minimum Wages and Economic Outcomes in Europe,” (with Stephen Machin); European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings . link

1996

“The Economic Impact of Minimum Wages in Europe,” (with J.Dolado, F.Kramarz, S.Machin, D.Margolis and C.Teulings); Economic Policy . link
“The Equal Pay Act as an Experiment to Test Different Theories of the Labour Market,” Economica . link
“The Employer Size-Wage Effect: Is Monopsony the Explanation?,” (with Francis Green and Stephen Machin)Oxford Economic Papers . link
“Authority in Employment Contracts: A Bilateral Bargaining Approach,” Labour Economics . link
“Employment and the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in Britain,” (with Stephen Machin) Economic Journal . link

1995

“How Do We Know that Real Wages are too High?,” Quarterly Journal of Economics . link
“The Effect of Minimum Wages on UK Agriculture,” (with R.Dickens, S.Machin, D.Metcalf, J.Wadsworth and S.Woodland); Journal of Agricultural Economics . link
“Developments in Labour Market Theory and their Implications for Macroeconomic Policy,” Scottish Journal of Political Economy . link
“After Wages Councils,” (with Richard Dickens) New Economy . link

1994

“How Robust is the Microeconomic Theory of the Trade Union?,” Journal of Labor Economics . link
“Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Employment: Evidence from the UK Wages Councils,” (with Stephen Machin) Industrial and Labor Relations Review . link
“Minimum Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Framework with an Application to the UK Wages Councils,” (with Richard Dickens and Stephen Machin) International Journal of Manpower . link

1993

“Wage Setting and the Tax System: Theory and Evidence for the U.K.,” (with Ben Lockwood) Journal of Public Economics . link
“Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve: The Specification and Identification of Aggregate Wage Equations,” Economic Journal . link
“Wages Councils: Was There a Case for Abolition?,” (with R.Dickens, P.Gregg, S.Machin and J.Wadsworth) British Journal of Industrial Relations . link
“Pre Strike Ballots and Wage Employment Bargaining,” Oxford Economic Papers . link
“A Dynamic Model of Union Power, Wages and Employment,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics . link

1992

“Multiple Equilibria in the British Labour Market: Some Empirical Evidence,” European Economic Review . link
“Testing Dynamic Models of Worker Effort,” (with Stephen Machin) Journal of Labor Economics . link
“Imperfect Labour Markets, the Stock Market and the Inefficiency of Capitalism,” Oxford Economic Papers . link

1991

“Tests of alternative wage employment bargaining models with an application to the UK aggregate labour market,” (with George Alogoskoufis) European Economic Review . link
“The Determinants of Wage Pressure: Some Implications of a Dynamic Model,” Economica . link

1990

“Imperfect Competition, Multiple Equilibria and Unemployment Policy,” Economic Journal . link
“Pricing A New Product: Eurotunnel,” (with John Kay and Stefan Szymanski) Business Strategy Review . link

1989

“Dynamic Wage Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs,” (with Ben Lockwood) Economic Journal . link
“An Asymmetric Information Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Participatory and Capitalist Firms,” Oxford Economic Papers . link
“The Economic Benefits of the Channel Tunnel,” (with J.Kay and S.Szymanski) Economic Policy . link

1988

“A Model of the Labour Market with some Marxian and Keynesian Features,” European Economic Review . link
“On the Persistence of Unemployment,” (with George Alogoskoufis) Economic Policy . link
“Inefficiency and Inequality in a Model of Occupational Choice with Private Information,” (with Ben Lockwood) Journal of Public Economics . link
“Wage Setting and Unemployment Persistence in Europe, Japan and the USA,” (with George Alogoskoufis) European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings . link

1987

“An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework,” Economic Journal . link
“Trade Union Power and Jobs,” International Review of Applied Economics . link
“Collective Bargaining Institutions and Efficiency,” European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings . link

1986

“The Profitability of Private Information in Unionised Capitalist Enterprises,” Economic Journal Conference Papers. link

1985

“A Note on Capital Markets and Bankruptcy Constraints in Contracting,” (with Ben Lockwood) Economics Letters. link