Dr Eva Pocher
- Lecturer in Economics (Economics)
telephone:
0141 330 6910
email:
Eva.Pocher@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Business School, Room 239D, East Quad, Main Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Biography
Eva joined the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School in January 2016. She studied at the University of Passau & Christian-Albrechts University (Diploma) in Germany before moving to Glasgow to do a MSc International Economics. She continued to stay in Scotland to pursue a PhD in Economics at the University of Aberdeen. Before her position at the University of Glasgow, Eva worked at the Employment Research Institute (ERI) at the Edinburgh Napier University as well as the School of Social Sciences at the Cardiff University in Wales.
Research interests
Eva is a member of the Macroeconomics research cluster.
- International immigration
- Labour market
- Gender pay gap
- Minimum wages
- Governmental policies
- International trade – trade wars
Supervision
Eva is interested in supervising the following areas:
- Employability, access to education and poverty
- Immigration and the effect on labour markets
- Gender discrimination in the labour market
- Insider-Outsider Theory
- Trade restrictions
- Minimum Wages
Teaching
- MBA "Global Economy" BUS5003
- International Trade ECON4018, ECON5018
- Microeconomics for Engineers ECON1003
- Introduction to Economics
- Economic Growth and Policies ECON3022
- Natural Resources
- Advanced Macroeconomics (UG)
Additional information
Work in progress
- Pocher, E. and Doering, H. “A review of the regional labour market outcomes of immigration into the United Kingdom.”
- Rooney, S. and Pocher, E. “The Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada”