Stephen Machin

Research Fellow

London School of Economics

s.j.machin@lse.ac.uk

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Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Previously he has been visiting Professor at Harvard University (1993/4) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001/2). He was an independent member of the Low Pay Commission in the UK and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been President of the European Association of Labor Economists (2009-11) and is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17423

Crime and the Labor Market

Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin, Paolo Pinotti

forthcoming in: Handbook of Labor Economics, 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17117

Government Contracting and Living Wages > Minimum Wages

Nikhil Datta, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16071

Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts

Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin, Melissa Rubio-Ramos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14000

Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes

Claudia Hupkau, Ingo E. Isphording, Stephen Machin, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

revised version published as 'Labour Market Shocks and Parental Investments during the Covid-19 Pandemic' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13837

Closing the Gap between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Camille Terrier, Guglielmo Ventura

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13456

Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe

Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keun Bok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, Outi Sirniö

published as 'Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe' in: American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 1 - 30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12380

Trade and Worker Deskilling

Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

published as 'New Dawn Fades: Trade, Labour and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024,152, 103993

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12352

Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin

published as 'International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crimes' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (3), 589–610

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12060

Rent Sharing and Inclusive Growth

Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski, Stephen Machin

published as 'The Decline in Rent Sharing' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42, 683-716