Professor Kerry Papps
Professor in Economics
| Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Management (Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences) |
|---|---|
| k.l.papps@bradford.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +441274 238573 |
Biography
Kerry Papps joined the University of Bradford in 2022. He is a labour economist who researches the effects of the minimum wage and other social policies. He also has an interest in what labour economists can learn from professional and amateur sports.
Kerry undertook his undergraduate education in New Zealand and worked for the New Zealand Department of Labour before completing a PhD at Cornell University, where he held a Fulbright Scholarship. From 2007-2010 he was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and in 2011 was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University.
Prior to joining Bradford, Kerry worked for 11 years at the University of Bath. While there, he directed Bath’s Master of Research programme in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and was director of impact within the Department of Economics.
Kerry is a research fellow of the IZA, Bonn and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has been commissioned to provide research for the World Bank and the UK Low Pay Commission.
Teaching
| Year | Module code | Title | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFE7501-B | Quantitative Methods in Finance |
Professional activities
- 01-JAN-07: Cornell University - PhD
- 01-JAN-99: Victoria University of Wellington - MCA
- 01-JAN-98: University of Canterbury - BSc (Hons)
- 01-OCT-22: University of Bradford - Professor of Economics
- 01-OCT-13: University of Bath - Senior Lecturer in Economics
- 01-SEP-11: University of Bath - Lecturer in Economics
- 01-JAN-11: Cornell University - Visiting Assistant Professor
- 01-OCT-07: Nuffield College, University of Oxford - Research Fellow
- 21-MAR-22: Higher Education Academy, Senior Fellow
- 01-JAN-08: IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Research Fellow
- 01-JAN-18: Advisory Board for Erasmus Centre for Applied Sports Economics,
- Director of Studies (Post Graduate Taught)
- 01-JUN-21: Low Pay Commission - Hiring behaviour and the national minimum wage
- 01-MAR-19: Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership - Local skills analysis for the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership
- 01-MAR-15: Low Pay Commission - How the national minimum wage affects flows in and out of employment: An investigation using worker-level data
- 01-MAR-13: Low Pay Commission - Beyond the wage: Changes in employment and compensation patterns in response to the national minimum wage
Publications
| Title | Who goes on disability when times are tough? The role of work norms among Immigrants (2022) |
|---|---|
| Authors | Furtado, D.; Papps, KL; Theodoropoulos, N |
| Journal | European Economic Review |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103983 |
| Title | Career lotto? Labor supply in a superstar market (2021) |
| Authors | Grove, WA; Jetter, M; Papps, KL |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.12.026 |
| Title | Sports at the vanguard of labor market policy (2020) |
| Authors | Papps, KL |
| Journal | IZA World of Labor |
| DOI | 10.15185/izawol.481 |
| Title | Cross-assignment discrimination in pay: A test case of major league baseball (2014) |
| Authors | Bodvarsson, OB; Papps, KL; Sessions, JG |
| Journal | Labour Economics |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.03.007 |
| Title | The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations (2013) |
| Authors | Blau, FD; Kahn, LM; Liu, AYH, Papps, KL |
| Journal | Journal of Population Economics |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-012-0424-x |
| Title | The effects of social security taxes and minimum wages on employment: Evidence from Turkey (2012) |
| Authors | Papps, KL |
| Journal | Industrial and Labor Relations Review |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F001979391206500309 |
| Title | Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball (2011) |
| Authors | Papps, KL; Bryson, A; Gomez, R |
| Journal | Labour Economics |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.labeco.2010.11.005 |
| Title | Gender, source country characteristics, and labor market assimilation among immigrants (2011) |
| Authors | Blau, FD; Kahn, LM; Papps, KL |
| Journal | Review of Economics and Statistics |
| DOI | 10.1162/REST_a_00064 |
| Title | Earnings inequality and gender in New Zealand, 1998-2008 (2010) |
| Authors | Papps, KL |
| Journal | New Zealand Economic Papers |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2010.522161 |
| Title | Asset pricing in created markets (2007) |
| Authors | Newell, R; Papps, KL; Sanchirico, J |
| Journal | American Journal of Agricultural Economics |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.01018.x |
| Title | Wages, employment, labour turnover and the accessibility of local labour markets (2006) |
| Authors | Morrison, PS; Papps, KL; Poot, J |
| Journal | Labour Economics |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.10.007 |
| Title | Investigating a wage curve for New Zealand (2001) |
| Authors | Papps, KL |
| Journal | New Zealand Economic Papers |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00779950109544340 |
| Title | Unemployment and crime: New evidence for an old question (2001) |
| Authors | Papps, KL; Winkelmann, R |
| Journal | New Zealand Economic Papers |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00779950009544315 |
| Title | Bilingualism in the labour market (2021) |
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| Authors | Clifton-Sprigg, J; Papps, KL |
| Journal | Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility: Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot |
| Publisher | Springer |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9275-1_4 |
| Title | Developments in phased retirement (2006) |
| Authors | Hutchens, R; Papps, KL |
| Journal | Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| DOI | 10.1093/0199284601.003.0008 |
| Other type | Magazine Article |
|---|---|
| Title | A £15 national minimum wage won’t tackle the cost of living crisis — an economist explains why (2022) |
| Authors | Papps, KL |
| Publisher | The Conversation |
| Other type | Magazine Article |
| Title | Why so many tennis players go pro even though few ‘make it’ (2018) |
| Authors | Jetter, M; Papps, KL; Grove, WA |
| Publisher | The Conversation |