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
Biography
KerryPapps joined the University of Bradford in 2022. He is a labour economist who researches the effects of the minimum wage andother social policies. He also has an interest in what laboureconomists can learn from professional and amateur sports.Kerryundertook his undergraduate education in New Zealand and worked for the NewZealand Department of Labour before completing a PhD at Cornell University,where he held a Fulbright Scholarship. From 2007-2010 he was a research fellowat Nuffield College, Oxford, and in 2011 was a visiting assistant professor atCornell 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.
Kerryis a research fellow of the IZA, Bonn and a senior fellow of the HigherEducation Academy. He has been commissioned to provide research for the WorldBank and the UK Low Pay Commission.
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Professor Kerry Papps as follows:
Teaching modules
| 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)
Employment
- University of Bradford - Professor of Economics in the year 2022 (specified as 01/10/2022)
- University of Bath - Senior Lecturer in Economics in the year 2013 (specified as 01/10/2013)
- Nuffield College, University of Oxford - Research Fellow in the year 2007 (specified as 01/10/2007)
- University of Bath - Lecturer in Economics in the year 2011 (specified as 01/09/2011)
- Cornell University - Visiting Assistant Professor in the year 2011 (specified as 01/01/2011)
Education
- Cornell University - PhD
- Victoria University of Wellington - MCA
- University of Canterbury - BSc (Hons)
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
| 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
| 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
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Sports at the vanguard of labor market policy | 2020 | IZA World of Labor | 481 | Papps, KL | 10.15185/izawol.481 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 |