Prof Andrew Newell

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Post:Professor of Economics (Economics)
Location:Jubilee Building Nab-272
Email:A.T.Newell@sussex.ac.uk

Telephone numbers
Internal:2866
UK:(01273) 872866
International:+44 1273 872866
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Biography

Andrew Newell is a labour economist.  His current research is into the structural and demographic processes that caused the rise of living standards among working households in 20th century Europe. He has also worked recently on agricultural labour markets in developing countries. Previously his research focused on labour markets in the former communist countries and on unemployment in Western countries. He has worked as a consultant on labour market issues for the World Bank, UNDP and UNICEF among other international agencies.  He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999. He teaches macroeconomics, world economic history and labour economics.

Role

Professor of Economics, Director of Doctoral Studies, BMEC

Econometric analysis of survey data on wages, employment and living standards

Intermediate Macroeconomics, World Economy since 1945

Student Consultation

Mondays 2.00-3.00

Gazeley, Ian and Newell, Andrew (2013) The First World War and working-class food consumption in Britain. European Review of Economic History, 17 (1). pp. 71-94. ISSN 1361-4916

Newell, Andrew (2012) Introduction to a symposium in honour of Michael Lipton. Journal of Development Studies, 48 (2). pp. 183-186. ISSN 0022-0388

Gazeley, Ian and Newell, Andrew (2012) The end of destitution: evidence from urban British working households 1904-1937. Oxford Economic Papers, 64 (1). pp. 80-102. ISSN 0030-7653

Gazeley, Ian and Newell, Andrew (2011) Poverty in Edwardian Britain. Economic History Review, 64 (1). pp. 52-71. ISSN 0013-0117

Gazeley, Ian, Newell, Andrew and Scott, Peter (2011) Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey. European Review of Economic History, 15 (1). pp. 127-151. ISSN 1361-4916

Eastwood, Robert, Lipton, Michael and Newell, Andrew (2009) Farm size. In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural Development: Farm Policies and Regional Development. Handbooks in Economics, 4 (18). Elsevier North-Holland, Oxford; Amsterdam, pp. 3323-3397. ISBN 978-0-444-51874-3

Newell, Andrew and Socha, Mieczyslaw W (2007) The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion. Economics of Transition, 15 (4). pp. 733-758. ISSN 0967-0750

Newell, Mr Andrew, ed. (2007) Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019921266X

Newell, Andrew and Pastore, Francesco (2006) Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland. Eastern European Economics, 44 (3). pp. 5-28. ISSN 0012-8775