Cardiff Business School

CBS Faculty

Current Teaching Commitments:

• Year 2 Macroeconomic Theory (BS2549)
• Year 3 Labour Economics (BS3558)
• Year 3 Research Topics in Economics (BS3564)

Recent Publications (2001 onwards):

'Innovations in WERS2004: Objective Measures on Workplace Performance', Industrial Relations Journal 2008, 39, 104-152. (with John Forth).

'The Impact of Varying Types of Performance Related Pay and Employee Participation on Earnings', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2007, 18, 1004-1025 (with K. Whitfield).

'Employee Share ownership and Performance: Golden Path or Golden Handcuffs?' International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2007, 18 (with S. Sengupta and K. Whitfield).

'Business Cycles and the Role of Confidence: Evidence for Europe'. The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69, 185-208 (with K. Taylor).

'Pay, Promotion and Parenthood amongst Women Solicitors'. Work, Employment and Society, 2006, 20, 289-308 (with V. Wass).

'Male-female Earnings Differences among Solicitors: A Legacy of the Law or a Current Practice?', Labour Economics, 2006, 13, 216-236 (with V. Wass).

'Never Give Up on the Good Times: Student Attrition in the UK', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 66, pp23-48 (with Geraint Johnes).

'Loss of Earnings Following Personal Injury: Do the Courts Adequately Compensate Injured Parties?', Economic Journal, 2003, 113, ppF568-584 (with R. Lewis, H. Robinson and V. Wass.).

'Introduction' in Edward P Lazear and Robert McNabb (eds) Personnel Economics, 2004, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, in press. (with Edward P Lazear).

'Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: The Case of University Students in the UK', Economica, 2002, 29, pp481-503 (with S. Pal and P. Sloane).

'Court Awards for Damages for Loss of Future Earnings: An Empirical Study and an Alternative Method of Calculation', Journal of Law and Society, 2002, 29, pp409-435 (with R. Lewis, H. Robinson and V. Wass)

'Methods for Calculating Damages for Loss of Future Earnings', Journal of Personal Injury Law, 2002, pp151-165 (with K. Lewis and V. Wass).

'Job Evaluation and High Performance Work Practices: Are They Compatible?', Journal of Management Studies, 2001, 38, pp271-289 (with K. Whitfield).

Current Research

'Academic Standards in Universities: More for Less or Less for More?' (with Geraint Johnes)

'Discrimination and the Law: Pay, Promotion and Parenthood' (with Vicki Wass)

'Efficiency Wages and Effort: A test of the Shirking and Fair Wage Hypotheses' (with Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor)

'Business Cycles and the Role of Confidence: Evidence from Europe' (with K. Taylor).

'Consumer Confidence, the Consumption Function and Rational Expectations' (with K. Taylor).

'Household Migration and the Labour Market Behaviour of Married Women', (with W. Vijverberg).

'A Cross-country Analysis of the Determinants of Migrants' Remittances', (with M. El-Sakka).

'An Analysis of Over- and Under-invoicing of Exports and Imports', (with M. El-Sakka).

'Varying Types of Performance-related Pay and Productivity Performance' (with K Whitfield)

'Employee Involvement, Incentive Pay and Earnings' (with K. Whitfield)

'It's Only Women's Work: A Decomposition of the Gender Effect' (with John Forth and Keith Whitfield)

'Job Satisfaction, Organisational Performance and High Performance Work Systems' (Keith Whitfield)

'Job Satisfaction: Is it What You Do or Who You Do It For?' (with Keith Whitfield)

'Worker Loyalty and Organisational Performance' (with Keith Whitfield)