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Professor Kerry Papps,
Professor in Economics

Information about Professor Kerry Papps at the University of Bradford.

School of Management
(Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences)
Email:
k.l.papps@bradford.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 1274 238573
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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

Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Professor Kerry Papps as follows:

Teaching modules

Information about programme modules taught by Professor Kerry Papps.
Title Subject Module code Year
Quantitative Methods in Finance

Professional activities

Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Professor Kerry Papps is as follows:

Consultancy

  • Low Pay Commission - How the national minimum wage affects flows in and out of employment: An investigation using worker-level data in the year 2015 (specified as 01/03/2015)
  • Low Pay Commission - Hiring behaviour and the national minimum wage in the year 2021 (specified as 01/06/2021)
  • Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership - Local skills analysis for the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership in the year 2019 (specified as 01/03/2019)
  • Low Pay Commission - Beyond the wage: Changes in employment and compensation patterns in response to the national minimum wage in the year 2013 (specified as 01/03/2013)

Education

  • Cornell University - PhD
  • Victoria University of Wellington - MCA
  • University of Canterbury - BSc (Hons)

Employment

  • Cornell University - Visiting Assistant Professor in the year 2011 (specified as 01/01/2011)
  • University of Bath - Senior Lecturer in Economics in the year 2013 (specified as 01/10/2013)
  • University of Bath - Lecturer in Economics in the year 2011 (specified as 01/09/2011)
  • University of Bradford - Professor of Economics in the year 2022 (specified as 01/10/2022)
  • Nuffield College, University of Oxford - Research Fellow in the year 2007 (specified as 01/10/2007)

  • Advisory Board for Erasmus Centre for Applied Sports Economics, in the year 2018 (specified as 01/01/2018)

  • Higher Education Academy, Senior Fellow in the year 2022 (specified as 21/03/2022)
  • IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Research Fellow in the year 2008 (specified as 01/01/2008)

Publications

There are 17 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Kerry Papps. They are listed as:

  • book chapter (2)
  • magazine article (2)
  • peer reviewed journal (13)

Book Chapter

Professor Kerry Papps has 2 publication(s) listed under book chapter.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Bilingualism in the labour market 2021 Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility: Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility: Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot Clifton-Sprigg, J; Papps, KL Cochrane, W; Cameron, MP; Alimi, O Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9275-1_4
Developments in phased retirement 2006 Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm Hutchens, R; Papps, KL Clark, RL; Mitchell, OS 9780199284603 Oxford University Press 10.1093/0199284601.003.0008

Magazine Article

Professor Kerry Papps has 2 publication(s) listed under magazine article.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
A £15 national minimum wage won’t tackle the cost of living crisis — an economist explains why 2022 Papps, KL The Conversation
Why so many tennis players go pro even though few ‘make it’ 2018 Jetter, M; Papps, KL; Grove, WA The Conversation

Peer Reviewed Journal

Professor Kerry Papps has 13 publication(s) listed under peer reviewed journal.
Title Year Publication name Journal Volume Pages Authors Editors ISSN Publisher DOI Location
Who goes on disability when times are tough? The role of work norms among Immigrants 2022 European Economic Review 143 Furtado, D.; Papps, KL; Theodoropoulos, N 0014-2921 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103983
Career lotto? Labor supply in a superstar market 2021 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 183 362 - 376 Grove, WA; Jetter, M; Papps, KL 0167-2681 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.12.026
Sports at the vanguard of labor market policy 2020 IZA World of Labor 481 Papps, KL 10.15185/izawol.481
Cross-assignment discrimination in pay: A test case of major league baseball 2014 Labour Economics 28 84 - 95 Bodvarsson, OB; Papps, KL; Sessions, JG 0927-5371 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.03.007
The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations 2013 Journal of Population Economics 26 Blau, FD; Kahn, LM; Liu, AYH, Papps, KL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-012-0424-x
The effects of social security taxes and minimum wages on employment: Evidence from Turkey 2012 Industrial and Labor Relations Review 65 Papps, KL https://doi.org/10.1177%2F001979391206500309
Gender, source country characteristics, and labor market assimilation among immigrants 2011 Review of Economics and Statistics 93 43 - 58 Blau, FD; Kahn, LM; Papps, KL 0034-6535 10.1162/REST_a_00064
Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball 2011 Labour Economics 18 Papps, KL; Bryson, A; Gomez, R https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.labeco.2010.11.005
Earnings inequality and gender in New Zealand, 1998-2008 2010 New Zealand Economic Papers 44 Papps, KL https://doi.org/10.1080/00779954.2010.522161
Asset pricing in created markets 2007 American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89 259 - 272 Newell, R; Papps, KL; Sanchirico, J 0002-9092 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.01018.x
Wages, employment, labour turnover and the accessibility of local labour markets 2006 Labour Economics 13 639 - 663 Morrison, PS; Papps, KL; Poot, J 0927-5371 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.10.007
Investigating a wage curve for New Zealand 2001 New Zealand Economic Papers 35 Papps, KL https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00779950109544340
Unemployment and crime: New evidence for an old question 2001 New Zealand Economic Papers 34 Papps, KL; Winkelmann, R https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00779950009544315