| Post: | Professor of Economics (Economics) |
| Location: | Jubilee Building Jub-283 |
| Email: | R.F.Dickens@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8461 |
| UK: | (01273) 678461 |
| International: | +44 1273 678461 |
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Biography
Education: Sussex (BA), LSE (MSc) and UCL (PhD).
Previous Posts: Formerly at Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, Queen Mary University of London, Institute for Economics and statistics, Oxford.
Visiting Positions Held: Melbourne University, Australian National University, National Bureau of Economic Research.
Acted as Advisor: HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, DWP.
Research Grants From: Low Pay Commission, Leverhulme Fellowship, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Department for International Development.
Role
Professor of Economics and Head of Department
Labour Markets, Minimum wages, Inequality and mobility, Poverty, Economic effects of immigration.
Monday 3-4PM or by appointment in Jubilee 283
Dickens, Richard, Riley, Rebecca and Wilkinson, David (2013) The UK minimum wage at age 22: a regression discontinuity approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. ISSN 1467-985X (In Press)
Dickens, Richard, Riley, Rebecca and Wilkinson, David (2012) Re-examining the Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Earnings, Employment and Hours: The Importance of Recession and Firm Size. Technical Report. Low Pay Commission, London.
Dickens, Richard (2011) Child Poverty in Britain: Past Lessons and Future Prospects. National Institute Economic Review, 218 (1). R7-R19. ISSN 00279501
Dickens, Richard and Dolton, Peter (2011) Using wage council data to identify the effect of recessions on the impact of the minimum wage. Technical Report. Low Pay Commission, London.
Dickens, Richard (2011) Child Poverty in Britain: Did Work Work? In: The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199587377
Dickens, Richard, Riley, Rebecca and Wilkinson, David (2010) The impact on employment of the age related increases in the National Minimum Wage. Technical Report. Low Pay Commission, London.
Dickens, Richard, Riley, Rebecca and Wilkinson, David (2009) The employment and hours of work effects of the changing National Minimum Wage. Technical Report. Low Pay Commission, London.
Dickens, Richard and McKnight, Abigail (2008) Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, London.
Dickens, Richard and McKnight, Abigail (2008) Changes in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
Dickens, Richard and McKnight, Abigail (2008) The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement. Working Paper. Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, London.
Dickens, Richard (2000) Caught in a Trap: Wage Mobility in Great Britain 1975-94. Economica, 67 (268). pp. 477-497. ISSN 00130427
Dickens, Richard (2000) The Evolution of Individual Male Earnings in Great Britain: 1975-95. Economic Journal, 110 (460). pp. 27-49. ISSN 1468-0297
Dickens, Richard (1999) Wage Mobility. In: The State of Working Britain. . Manchester University Press, pp. 206-224. ISBN 9780719056475