Dr Kerry L. Papps
Recent activities
- Effort varies over the life-cycle in response to changes in incentives
presentation at Society of Labor Economists meeting (May 2013) - Payroll taxes found to have a larger disemployment effect than minimum wages
presentation at European Public Choice Society meeting, Zurich (April 2013) - Evidence suggests that gender roles are transmitted across immigrant generations
free download of Journal of Population Economics article (April 2013) - The ‘right mix’ may be just as important as pure talent: some evidence from professional baseball
Labour Market Matters magazine (June 2012)
Profile
Kerry Papps joined the University of Bath in September 2011. He undertook his undergraduate education in New Zealand and worked for the New Zealand Department of Labour before completing a PhD at Cornell University, where he held a Fulbright Scholarship.
From 2007-2010, he was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and in 2011 was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University.
Kerry is a research fellow of the IZA, Bonn and has held short-term research posts at the World Bank, Motu Economics and Public Policy (New Zealand) and Imperial College London.
Research interests
- Labour economics
- Family economics
- Personnel economics
- Sports economics
Teaching
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Publications
Book Sections
Hutchens, R. and Papps, K. L., 2005. Developments in phased retirement. In: Clark, R. L. and Mitchell, O. S., eds. Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm. Oxford University Press, pp. 133-159.
Articles
Blau, F. D., Kahn, L. M., Liu, A. Y.-H. and Papps, K. L., 2013. The transmission of women's fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations. Journal of Population Economics, 26 (2), pp. 405-435.
Papps, K. L., 2012. The effects of social security taxes and minimum wages on employment: evidence from Turkey. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 65 (3), 9.
Papps, K. L., Bryson, A. and Gomez, R., 2011. Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball, 1920–2009. Labour Economics, 18 (3), pp. 310-319.
Blau, F. D., Kahn, L. M. and Papps, K. L., 2011. Gender, source country characteristics, and labor market assimilation among immigrants. Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (1), pp. 43-58.
Papps, K. L., 2010. Earnings inequality and gender in New Zealand, 1998–2008. New Zealand Economic Papers, 44 (3), pp. 217-229.
Newell, R. G., Papps, K. L. and Sanchirico, J. N., 2007. Asset pricing in created markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89 (2), pp. 259-272.
Morrison, P. S., Papps, K. L. and Poot, J., 2006. Wages, employment, labour turnover and the accessibility of local labour markets. Labour Economics, 13 (5), pp. 639-663.
Maré, D. C. and Papps, K. L., 2002. The effects of occupational safety and health interventions. Labour Market Bulletin, 2000-02 (Special Issue), pp. 101-131.
Papps, K. L., 2001. Investigating a wage curve for New Zealand. New Zealand Economic Papers, 35 (2), pp. 218-239.
Papps, K. L. and Winkelmann, R., 2000. Unemployment and crime: New evidence for an old question. New Zealand Economic Papers, 34 (1), pp. 53-71.
