Working papers

“Estimating labour market power: the long and short of it” June 2025 (with Ihsaan Bassier) [Link to DP].

“Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries” March 2025 (with Leah Boustan, Mathias Jensen and many others) [Link to DP].

“Only Human? Immigration and Firm Productivity in Britain”, December 2024 (with Tessa Hall) [Link to DP].

“Should I stay or should I go? Return migration from the United States”, February 2024 (with Graham Mazeine) [Link to DP]

“Immigration and Vocational Training; Evidence from England”, January 2024 (with Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura) [Link to DP]

“Predicting Net Migration”, October 2023 (with Tessa Hall and Madeleine Sumption) [Link to DP]

“The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment”, November 2022 (with Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn, and Michael Oberfichtner) [Link to DP]

“Income and the Desire to Migrate” 2021 (with Monica Langella) [Link to DP]

“Commuting, Migration and Local Joblessness”, June 2019, (with Michael Amior) [Link to DP].

“American Idol – 65 years of Admiration” December 2014 (with Amar Shanghavi) [Link to DP].

“The Volatility of Earnings: Evidence from High-Frequency Firm-Level Data” August 2014 (with Andreas Georgiadis) [Link to DP].

“Immigration and the Access to Social Housing in the UK,” April 2014 (with Diego Battiston, Richard Dickens and Jonathan Wadsworth) [Link to DP].

“Minimum Wages and Wage Inequality: Some Theory and an Application to the UK,” November 2012 (with Tim Butcher and Richard Dickens) [Link to DP].

“Theory of Values”, February 2009 (with Andreas Georgiadis) [Link to DP]

“Respect”, March 2007 [Link to DP].

“Mighty Good Thing: The Returns to Tenure”, April 1997 [Link to DP].

“A Simple Test of the Shirking Model”, November 1994 (with Jonathan Thomas) [Link to DP].

“Labour Markets with Company Wage Policies”, LSE CEP Discussion Paper, December 1994 [Link to DP].

“Are Workers Paid Their Marginal Product? Evidence from a Low Wage Labour Market”, LSE CEP Discussion Paper, October 1994 (with S.Machin and S.Woodland) [Link to DP].

“Endogenous Labour Market Segmentation in a Matching Model”, March 1993, LSE CEP

Discussion Paper No. 126 [Link to DP].