Professor Peter Wright
School of Economics
Professor of Economics
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- Profile
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Peter graduated from the University of Bristol in 1989 and gained his MA and PhD from the University of Warwick. He previously worked at the University of Nottingham as lecturer, senior lecturer and then Reader in Labour Economics. At Nottingham he was one of the co-founders of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) and, from 2002 to 2010, he was the Programme Co-ordinator of the Globalisation and Labour Market (GLM) Programme. He remains a GEP external fellow.
Peter has completed research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and has been involved in advisory reports for Deutsche Bank, the (former) Department for Trade and Industry, UK Trade and Investment and the European Commission. Peter joined the School in September 2010 as Professor of Economics and was Head of Department from 2015.
- Research interests
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Peter's research interests lie primarily in the area of labour market adjustment, and he has worked in both open and closed economy frameworks. His work has been both theoretical and applied. Examples of his work include: an examination of the wage and employment effects of merger; corporate governance reforms and executive compensation determination; the unemployment and income consequences for individuals of firm closure.
He is particularly interested in supervising doctoral work using matched employer-employee data.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Oxford Economic Papers, 71(1), 250-268.
- . Economica, 86(341), 166-200.
- The Impact of Displacement on the Earnings of Workers in Ireland. Economic and Social Review, 49(4), 373-417.
- . The Manchester School, 82(4), 385-408.
- . Economic Journal, 124(574).
- . Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 65(4), 975-999.
- . Canadian Journal of Economics, 44(3), 1020-1043.
- . Statistics Canada Analytical Branch Studies Working Paper(334).
- . Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 72(5), 621-647.
- . Journal of Population Economics, 23(4), 1189-1211.
- Open-shop unions and product market competition. Canadian Journal of Economics, 43(2), 640-662.
- . Journal of Human Resources, 45(1), 243-269.
- . International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27(6), 679-686.
- . Economic Journal, 119(536), 463-481.
- . World Economy, 30(2), 249-266.
- . Manchester School, 75(1), 65-81.
- . Economica, 73(290), 321-339.
- . International Journal of the Economics of Business, 13(3), 335-349.
- . Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 66(5), 847-862.
- . Review of International Economics, 11(3), 483-494.
- . Journal of Industrial Economics, 50(1), 85-102.
- . Journal of Development Economics, 67(1), 229-244.
- Why are productivity and wages higher in foreign firms. Economic and Social Review, 33(1), 93-100.
- . European Economic Review, 46(1), 31-49.
- . Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 138(4), 680-693.
- . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 45(4), 427-440.
- . Review of International Economics, 8(3), 517-532.
- . Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48(3), 657-670.
- Sectoral transformation and labour-market flows. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 16(3), 57-75.
- . Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 136(3), 522-538.
- . European Journal of Political Economy, 15(3), 485-500.
- . Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 8(1), 41-51.
- . Economic Journal, 108(450), 1500-1510.
- . Economic Journal, 108(450), 1547-1561.
- . Economic Journal, 108(447), 509-528.
- . World Development, 25(11), 1885-1892.
- . International Journal of Manpower, 16(2), 53-59.
- Executive pensions and the pay-performance relation. Evidence from changes to pension legislation in the UK. Oxford Economic Papers.
- Teaching activities
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My approach to teaching is to examine issues of which students may already have experience or opinions: education, the decision to work, unemployment and then to attempt to integrate theoretical modelling and empirical evidence in order to address questions of policy. Where possible I seek to link the topics taught to my research. I would like students to think critically about what they are taught and engage with the process of academic research.