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Kerry Papps

Professor in Economics

Area
School of Management
Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
E-mail
k.l.papps@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274238573
Kerry Papps
17 publications

Biography

Kerry Papps joined the University of Bradford in 2022. He is a labour economist who researches the effects of the minimum wage and other social policies. He also has an interest in what labour economists can learn from professional and amateur sports.
Kerry 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.
Prior to joining Bradford, Kerry worked for 11 years at the University of Bath. While there, he directed Bath’s Master of Research programme in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and was director of impact within the Department of Economics.
Kerry is a research fellow of the IZA, Bonn and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has been commissioned to provide research for the World Bank and the UK Low Pay Commission.

Teaching

Modules

  • Quantitative Methods in Finance - AFE7501-B

Professional activities

  • Advisory Board for Erasmus Centre for Applied Sports Economics, (1 January 2018)

  • Low Pay Commission - Hiring behaviour and the national minimum wage (1 June 2021)
  • Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership - Local skills analysis for the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (1 March 2019)
  • Low Pay Commission - How the national minimum wage affects flows in and out of employment: An investigation using worker-level data (1 March 2015)
  • Low Pay Commission - Beyond the wage: Changes in employment and compensation patterns in response to the national minimum wage (1 March 2013)

  • Cornell University - PhD
  • Victoria University of Wellington - MCA
  • University of Canterbury - BSc (Hons)

  • University of Bradford - Professor of Economics (1 October 2022)
  • University of Bath - Senior Lecturer in Economics (1 October 2013)
  • University of Bath - Lecturer in Economics (1 September 2011)
  • Cornell University - Visiting Assistant Professor (1 January 2011)
  • Nuffield College, University of Oxford - Research Fellow (1 October 2007)

  • Higher Education Academy, Senior Fellow (21 March 2022)
  • IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Research Fellow (1 January 2008)

Publications

  • Bilingualism in the labour market

    Clifton-Sprigg, J; Papps, KL (2021) Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility: Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot. In Cochrane, W; Cameron, MP; Alimi, O editor(s) Springer.