CANCELLED - Thursday 20th May 2010

Published: 1 June 0009

Professor Robert Hart, University of Stirling


Please note this seminar is CANCELLED

We apologise for any inconvenience

 



 

"Above and beyond the call. Long-term real earnings effects of British male military conscription, 1949-1960."

(jointly authored with Julien Grenet, LSE, and Elizabeth Roberts, Stirling University)

 

Bob Hart is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Stirling Management School.

His research interests include:

  • Labour costs
  • Working time
  • Returns to education and training
  • Wages and the business cycle
  • Employment/wages/hours/strikes in the British engineering industry 1920-1970

Key Publications

  • (with Y Ma) "Wages, hours and human capital over the lifecycle" Journal of Economics and Statistics, 228, 2008, 446-464
  • "Piece work pay and hourly pay over the cycle" Labour Economics, 15, 2008, 1006-1022.
    22.05.2009ork intensity in the Great Depression” Southern Economic Journal, 75, 2008, 91-103
  • (with P Devereux) "The spot market matters: evidence on implicit contracts from Britain” Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54, 661-683, Special Issue on Labour Contracts and Wages over the Cycle
  • “Women doing men’s work and women doing women’s work:female work and pay in British wartime Engineering”, Explorations in Economic History, 44, 2007, 114-130.
  • The economics of overtime working, Cambridge University Press (August, 2004).

Venue: Lilybank House Seminar Room

Time: 11am

Tea, coffee & biscuits will be provided.

 

First published: 1 June 0009