Dr Peter Wright

B.Sc. (Bristol), M.A., Ph.D. (Warwick)

Associate Professor & Reader in Labour Economics
Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy
 

Room B68, The Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)115 951 5470

Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4159

e-mail: peter.wright@nottingham.ac.uk

Personal website: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lezpw

Profile

Dr Peter Wright has been a member of staff at the University of Nottingham since 1993. He is a Reader in Labour Economics and the Globalisation and Labour Market (GLM) Programme Co-Ordinator in the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP).His research interests lie primarily in the area of labour market adjustment, and he has worked in both open and closed economy frameworks. His work has been both theoretical and applied. He has successfully completed four ESRC funded research projects and has been involved in advisory reports for DfiD and the Asian Development bank. He has published a range of papers including papers in the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Selected publications and discussion papers

    1. Udo Kreickemeier Paulo Bastos and Peter W. Wright. Open shop unions and product market competition. Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

    2. Alexander Hijzen, Richard Upward, and Peter W. Wright. The income losses of displaced workers. Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

    3. Paulo Bastos, Udo Kreickemeier, and Peter W. Wright. Oligopoly, open shop unions and trade liberalisation. International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.

    4. Alexander Hijzen and Peter W. Wright. Migration, trade and wages. Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.

    5. Ian Gregory-Smith, Steve Thompson, and Peter W. Wright. Fired or retired? A competing risks analysis of chief executive turnover. The Economic Journal, 119(536):463-481, March 2009.

    6. Spiros Bougheas, Carl Davidson, Richard Upward, and Peter W. Wright. Structural adjustment, turnover and career mobility. University of Nottingham, GEP Discussion Papers 08/23.

    7. Richard Upward and Peter W. Wright. Snakes or ladders? Skill upgrading and occupational mobility in the US and the UK during the 1990s. University of Nottingham, GEP Discussion Papers 07/38.

    8. Alexander Hijzen, Mauro Pisu, Richard Upward, and Peter W. Wright. Employment, job turnover and the trade in producer services: Firm-level evidence. University of Nottingham, GEP Discussion Papers 07/37.

Other discussion papers can be downloaded from here.

Teaching

L11116 Current Economic Issues (First year)

L12411 Applied Quantitative Economics (second year)

L14032 Labour Economics

A complete list of modules can be found here.

Curriculum Vitae

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This page last updated on 22/09/09 by Charlene Hill

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