Richard Upward

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Biography

Richard joined the School of Economics in 1998 as a Research Fellow and became a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2001. He has been Professor of Labour Economics in the School since 2014. Before coming to Nottingham, he worked as a Research Associate in the economics department at Manchester University, where he also completed his Ph.D. His research interests are in labour economics (search and matching, globalisation and labour markets, job loss and worker turnover) and in applied econometrics (panel data, linked employer-employee data, duration modelling, treatment evaluation). He is a Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. He has supervised 18 PhD students in a variety of areas including labour economics, international economics, development and education.

Richard's complete CV can be downloaded here in pdf format.

Selected Publications

• RICHARD UPWARD and PETER WRIGHT, 2018. Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a flexible labour market Economica. (In Press.)
• UPWARD, R. and WANG, Z., 2016. Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations: Evidence from Chinese exports to the US Economics Letters. 144, 71-74
• ANDREWS, MARTYN, GERNER, HANS-DIETER, SCHANK, THORSTEN and UPWARD, RICHARD, 2015. More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours Oxford Economic Papers. 67(2), 245-268
• BRUECKER, H., JAHN, E., HAUPTMANN, A. and UPWARD, R., 2014. Migration and imperfect labour markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK European Economic Review. 66, 205-225

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• RICHARD UPWARD and PETER WRIGHT, 2018. Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a flexible labour market Economica. (In Press.)
• DANIEL BERNHOFEN, RICHARD UPWARD and ZHENG WANG, 2018. Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the U.S. The World Economy. (In Press.)
• MARTYN ANDREWS, THORSTEN SCHANK and RICHARD UPWARD, 2017. Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic Evidence The World Economy. 40(9), 1750-1774
• LUTZ BELLMANN, HANS-DIETER GERNER and RICHARD UPWARD, 2017. Job and worker turnover in German establishments The Manchester School. (In Press.)
• RICHARD UPWARD and ZOUHEIR EL-SAHLI, 2017. Off the Waterfront: The long-run impact of technological change on dock workers British Journal of Industrial Relations. 55(2), 225-273
• UPWARD, R. and WANG, Z., 2016. Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations: Evidence from Chinese exports to the US Economics Letters. 144, 71-74
• ANDREWS, MARTYN, GERNER, HANS-DIETER, SCHANK, THORSTEN and UPWARD, RICHARD, 2015. More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours Oxford Economic Papers. 67(2), 245-268
• BRUECKER, H., JAHN, E., HAUPTMANN, A. and UPWARD, R., 2014. Migration and imperfect labour markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK European Economic Review. 66, 205-225
• ANDREWS, M.J., BRADLEY, S., STOTT, D. and UPWARD, R., 2013. Estimating the stock-flow matching model using micro data Journal of the European Economic Association. 11(5), 1153-1177
• UPWARD, R., WANG, Z. and ZHENG, J., 2013. Weighing China’s export basket: The domestic content and technology intensity of Chinese exports Journal of Comparative Economics. 41(2), 527-543
• ALEXANDER HIJZEN, PEDRO MARTINS, THORSTEN SCHANK and RICHARD UPWARD, 2013. Foreign-owned firms around the world: A comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level European Economic Review. 60, 170-188
• ANDREWS, M., BELLMANN, L., SCHANK, T. and UPWARD, R., 2012. Foreign-owned plants and job security Review of World Economics. 148(1), 89-117
• ANDREWS, M.J., GILL, L., SCHANK, T. and UPWARD, R., 2012. High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias Economics Letters. 117(3), 824-827
• HIJZEN, A., PISU, M., UPWARD, R. and WRIGHT, P.W., 2011. Employment, job turnover, and trade in producer services: UK firm-level evidence Canadian Journal of Economics. 44(3), 1020-1043
• HIJZEN, A, UPWARD, R. and WRIGHT, P.W., 2010. The income losses of displaced workers Journal of Human Resources. 45(1), 243-269
• HIJZEN, A and WRIGHT, P. AND UPWARD, R., 2010. Job creation, job destruction and the role of small firms: Firm-level evidence for the UK Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 72(5), 621-647
• ANDREWS, M., BELLMANN, L., SCHANK, T. and UPWARD, R., 2010. The impact of financial participation on workers Journal of Labour Market Research. 43(1), 72-89
• ANDREWS, M, BELLMANN, L and SCHANK, T. AND UPWARD, R., 2009. The takeover and selection effects of foreign ownership in Germany: An analysis using linked worker-firm data Review of World Economics. 145(2), 293--317
• ANDREWS, M.J., GILL, L., SCHANK, T. and UPWARD, R., 2008. High wage workers and low wage firms: negative assortative matching or limited mobility bias? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society. 171(3), 673-697
• ANDREWS, M., BRADLEY, S., STOTT, D. and UPWARD, R., 2008. Successful Employer Search?: An empirical analysis of vacancy duration using micro data Economica. 75(299), 455-480
• PHIMISTER, E., THEODOSSIOU, I. and UPWARD, R., 2006. Is it easier to escape from low pay in urban areas? Evidence from the UK Environment and Planning A.
• ANDREWS, M., SCHANK, T. and UPWARD, R., 2006. Practical fixed-effects estimation methods for the three-way error-components model Stata Journal. 6(4), 461-481
• UPWARD, R., 2002. Evaluating outcomes from the Youth Training Scheme using matched firm-trainee data Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 64(3), 277-306
• HAYNES, M., UPWARD, R. and WRIGHT, P., 2002. Estimating the wage costs of inter- and intra-sectoral adjustment Review of World Economics. 138(2), 229-253
• GREENAWAY, D., UPWARD, R. and WRIGHT, P.W., 2001. Sectoral transformation and labour market flows Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 16(3), 57-75
• ANDREWS, M.J., BRADLEY, S. and UPWARD, R., 2001. Estimating the probability of a match using microeconomic data for the youth labour market Labour Economics. 8(3), 335-357
• STEWART, M.B., SWAFFIELD, J., UPWARD, R. and ANDREWS, M., 2000. The Estimation of Union Wage Differentials for Britain and the impact of methodological choices Labour Economics. 5, 449-474
• HAYNES, M., WRIGHT, P. and UPWARD, R., 2000. Smooth and sticky adjustment: A comparative analysis of the US and UK Review of International Economics. 8(3), 517-532
• BRADLEY, S., UPWARD, R. and ANDREWS, M., 1999. Estimating youth training wage differentials during and after training Oxford Economic Papers. 51, 517-544
• ANDREWS, M., BRADLEY, S. and UPWARD, R., 1999. Employment youth training wage differentials during and after training Oxford Economic Papers. VOL 51(NUMBER 3), 517-544
• ANDREWS, M. J., BELL, D. N. F. and UPWARD, R., 1998. Union Coverage Differentials. Some Estimates for Britain using the New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. VOL 60(NUMBER 1), 47-78
• ANDREWS, M. J., STEWART, M. B., SWAFFIELD, J. K. and UPWARD, R., 1998. The estimation of union wage differentials and the impact of methodological choices Labour Economics. VOL 5(ISSUE 4), 449-474