The blog of the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York
Academics in the Department of Economics and Related Studies have been hard at work over recent months, producing cutting-edge research that helps to illuminate a range of issues relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a round-up of all the articles that our staff members have published on this topic since March 2020. “The Coming …
Professor Emma Tominey investigates the election promises currently being made on family policies. Both Labour and the Liberal Democrat parties have put forward policies to help new parents. They go further than the current Conservative system, but would leave the UK lagging behind many of its international peers when it comes to supporting new parents. …
Continue reading UK Election 2019: What the Parties say on Parental Leave and Childcare
Professor Karen Mumford discusses her latest research on the gender pay gap. My latest research – in a joint paper with Cristina Sechel, published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations – reveals that the pay gap between male and female economists at UK universities has not fallen for 20 years. The number of female …
Continue reading Mind the gap – pay and job rank amongst academic economists
Thomas Cornelissen (York), on his research with Christian Dustmann (UCL), Anna Raute (Queen Mary, UoL) and Uta Schönberg (UCL). Many countries operate universal childcare programmes that are open to all pre-school age children. This blog post, reproduced from a voxeu article, analyses data from Germany to show that attending universal childcare at age 3 improves …
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