Richard Upward
School of
Economics
I am a Professor of Labour Economics in the School of Economics at Nottingham University, and a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. My research interests are primarily in applied labour economics and applied microeconometrics. This page describes my recent work and has links to recent papers. A recent CV can be found here.
Worker displacement and adjustment
Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a
flexible labour market
with Peter Wright
Economica (2019)
Stata code to create the panel of displaced workers and to estimate the costs of displacement is available on request. Please email richard.upward@nottingham.ac.uk
Off
the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on
dock workers
with Zouheir El-Sahli
British Journal of Industrial Relations (2017)
The income
losses of displaced workers
with Alex Hijzen and Peter
Wright
Journal of Human Resources (2010)
Estimating the
wage costs of inter- and intra-sectoral adjustment
with
Michelle Haynes and Peter Wright
Review of World
Economics (2002)
Sectoral
Transformation and Labour Market Flows
with David
Greenaway and Peter Wright
Oxford Review of Economic
Policy (2000)
Smooth
and sticky adjustment: a comparative analysis of the US and
UK
with Michelle Haynes and Peter Wright
Review
of International Economics (2000)
Search and Matching in the Labour Market
Social comparisons in job search: experimental evidence
CeDEx Discussion Paper 2017-10
with
Jingcheng Fu and Martin Sefton
Meeting and matching: New evidence on marketplace
search in the labour market (slides only)
with Martyn Andrews and Jingcheng Fu
Estimating the stock-flow
matching model
with Martyn Andrews, Steve Bradley and
Dave Stott.
Journal of the European Economic
Association (2013)
Successful
employer search? An empirical analysis of vacancy duration
using micro data
with Martyn Andrews, Steve Bradley
and Dave Stott.
Economica (2008)
Estimating
the probability of a match using micro-econometric data for
the youth labour market
with Martyn Andrews and Steve
Bradley
Labour Economics (2001)
Linked employer-employee data
High wage workers
match with high wage firms: clear evidence of the effects of
limited mobility bias
with Martyn Andrews, Len Gill
and Thorsten Schank.
Economics Letters (2012)
High
wage workers and low wage firms: negative assortative matching
or limited mobility bias?
with Martyn Andrews, Len
Gill and Thorsten Schank.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (2008)
Practical
Estimation Methods for Linked Employer-employee data
with Martyn Andrews, Thorsten Schank
The Stata Journal (2006)
Stata code and data to estimate models in above paper: [download do-file] [download data] and Stata code to calculate a grouping indicator for linked employer-employee data: [download ado-file] [download help-file]
Firm-level adjustment of employment
Job
and worker turnover in German establishments
with Lutz
Bellmann and Hans-Dieter Gerner.
Manchester School (2018)
Employee turnover and the expansion and contraction of employers
with Mario
Bossler.
in Research
Handbook of Employee Turnover (2016)
More
hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working
hours
with Martyn Andrews, Dieter Gerner and Thorsten
Schank
Oxford Economic Papers (2015).
Employment
adjustment in German firms: more flexible than we thought?
(in German)
with Lutz Bellmann and Hans-Dieter
Gerner.
Journal of Labour Market Research (2013)
Job Creation, Job
Destruction and the Role of Small Firms: Firm-Level
evidence for the UK
with Alex Hijzen and Peter
Wright
Oxford Bulletin of Economics
and Statistics (2010)
Globalisation and labour markets
Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese
Textile Exports to the U.S.
with Daniel Bernhofen and Zheng Wang
The World Economy (2018)
Do foreign workers reduce trade
barriers? Microeconomic evidence
with Martyn Andrews
and Thorsten Schank
The World Economy (2017)
Quota restrictions and intra-firm
reallocations: evidence from Chinese exports to the United States
with Zheng Wang
Economics Letters (2016)
Migration
and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-country
Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
with
Herbert Brücker, Andreas Hauptmann and Elke
Jahn.
European Economic Review (2014).
Weighing China's export
basket: the domestic content and technology intensity of
Chinese exports
with Zheng Wang and Jinghai Zheng
Journal of Comparative Economics (2013)
Foreign-owned firms
around the world:
a comparative analysis of wages and
employment at the micro-level
with Alex Hijzen (OECD)
Pedro Martins (Queen Mary) and Thorsten Schank
(Mainz).
European Economic Review (2013).
Employment, Job
Turnover and Trade in Services: Firm-Level Evidence
with Alex Hijzen, Mauro Pisu and Peter
Wright.
Canadian Journal of Economics (2011).
Foreign owned
plants and job security
with Martyn Andrews, Lutz
Bellmann and Thorsten Schank
Review of World Economics (2011).
The takeover
and selection effects of foreign ownership in Germany:
an
analysis using linked worker-firm data
with Martyn
Andrews, Lutz Bellmann and Thorsten Schank
Review of World Economics (2009).
The effects of training in the youth labour market
Estimating youth training wage differentials during and after training
with Martyn Andrews and Steve Bradley
Oxford Economic Papers (1999)
Evaluating outcomes from the Youth Training Scheme using matched firm-trainee data
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2002)
Trade Unions
The
estimation of union wage differentials for Britain and the
impact of methodological choices
with Martyn
Andrews, Mark Stewart and Joanna Swaffield
Labour Economics (1998)
Union
coverage differentials: some estimates for Britain using the
New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset
with Martyn
Andrews and David Bell
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (1998)
Other papers
Endogenous
participation in imperfect labor and capital
markets
with Spiros Bougheas
Economics
Bulletin (2013)
Errata: Corrected version of Figure 1
The
impact of financial participation on workers' compensation
with
Martyn Andrews, Lutz Bellmann and Thorsten Schank
Journal of Labour Market Research (2010)
Is it easier to
escape from low pay in urban areas? Evidence from the
UK
with Euan Phimister and Ioannis Theodossiou
Environment and Planning A (2006)
Current and Past PhD students
David Contreras Gomez
Teacher evaluations and student outcomes.
Martina Magli
Effects of services offshoring on local labour markets.
Zhangfeng Jin
Rural-urban migration and labour market networks in China.
Jingcheng Fu
Empirical and experimental evidence on the microfoundations of matching.
Rachel Slaymaker
Migration and international trade.
Zovanga Kone
The labour market effects of migration in the UK.
Susan Kavuma
Returns to education in Uganda.
Smaranda Pantea
Globalisation and productivity in transition economies: firm-level evidence.
Robert Riegler
The fragmentation and integration of UK firms.
Zheng Wang
Wage and productivity responses to increased trade openness in China.
Chris Parsons
Patterns of global migration 1960-2000.
Last updated: February 2019