Duncan McVicar

Research Fellow

Queen's University Belfast

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Research Interests

Duncan McVicar is Professor of Economics at Queen's University Belfast, having previously worked at the University of Melbourne and the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre.

He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton in 1999. His research interests include: program evaluation and welfare reform; disability, unemployment and inactivity; non-standard employment; education; substance use; and sequence analysis of labour market data.

He has published widely in economics and social science and is currently working on zero hours contracts and their impacts on workers, air pollution and health, and disability benefit reforms, among other things.

Duncan joined IZA as a Research Fellow in May 2017.







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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15464
Prenatal Exposure to PM2.5 and Infant Birth Outcomes: Evidence from a Population-Wide Database
Babak Jahanshahi, Brian Johnston, Duncan McVicar, Mark E. McGovern, Dermot O’Reilly, Neil Rowland, Stavros Vlachos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13548
Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 370 - 399
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13116
Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
published as 'Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK' in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (1), 50-71
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12291
Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
Egidio Farina, Colin P. Green, Duncan McVicar
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11633
The Evolution of Catholic-Protestant Labour Market Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Neil Rowland, Duncan McVicar, Ian Shuttleworth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11585
Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
Duncan McVicar, Andrew Park, Seamus McGuinness
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8(2)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11186
The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain
Melanie K. Jones, Duncan McVicar
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 936–957,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10768
Contingent Employment and Labour Market Pathways: Bridge or Trap?
Duncan McVicar, Mark Wooden, Yin King Fok
published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 98 - 115.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9801
The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes
Barbara Broadway, Guyonne Kalb, Duncan McVicar, Bill Martin
published in: Feminist Economics, 2020, 26( 3), 30-65.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7794
Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sonja C. de New, Trinh Le, Duncan McVicar, Rong Zhang
published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23 (4), 376-395
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