Stan Siebert

Professor Stan Siebert

Department of Management
Professor of Labour Economics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6698
Email: w.s.siebert@bham.ac.uk

Address: Business School
University House
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

W Stanley Siebert is Professor of Labour Economics at the Business School, where he has worked since 1980. He gained his PhD at the London School of Economics. He has published widely in the major economics and industrial relations journals including the Academy of Management Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Management Science and Oxford Economic Papers. He is the author of two texts on labour economics The Market for Labor: An Analytical Treatment (with John Addison) and The Economics of Earnings (with Solomon Polachek). He has also edited a survey of European labor market regulation Labour Markets in Europe: Issues of Harmonisation and Regulation (co edited with John Addison).

Stan is a member of IZA (Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn) where most of his recent papers can be accessed ().

Teaching

Teaching: Personnel Economics, a final-year 20-credit module (with Dr. Deniz Sevinc)

Postgraduate supervision

Industrial relations (unions, worker participation);
European social and labour policy;
Vocational training and education;
Wage issues (gender wage gap, minimum wages, wage inequalities)

Research

Project 1 aims to examine employment and wages of unskilled workers within OECD countries, and specifically to consider labour policies such as minimum wages and employment protection laws. Project can be widened to consider education/training of the unskilled and the class wage gap. Data are literature surveys plus original data eg EUKLEMS
Project 2 analyses the cost-effectiveness of a guide-style education feedback improvement using an RCT in 10 schools in rural China where there are special problems of “left-behind” children. Feedback notes are shared with the absent parents.

Other activities

Blogs and presentations

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Carmichael, F, Darko, C, Ercolani, M, Ozgen, C & Siebert, S 2020, '', Economics Letters, vol. 189, 108996.

Adab, P, Fitzmaurice, D, Dickens, A, Ayres, J, Buni, H, Cheng, K, Cooper, B, Daley, A, Enocson, A, Greenfield, S, Jolly, C, Jowett, S, Kalirai, K, Marsh, J, Miller, M, Riley, R, Siebert, W, Stockley, R, Turner, A & Jordan, R 2016, '', International Journal of Epidemiology.

Anagnostopoulos, AD & Siebert, W 2015, '', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 26, no. 18, pp. 2366-2393.

Jordan, R, Adab, P, Jowett, S, Marsh, J, Riley, RD, Enocson, A, Miller, MR, Cooper, BG, Turner, AM, Ayres, J, Cheng, K, Jolly, C, Stockley, RA, Greenfield, S, Siebert, W, Daley, A & Fitzmaurice, DA 2014, '', BMC Pulmonary Medicine, vol. 14, no. 1, 157.

Heywood, JS, Siebert, W & Wei, X 2011, '', Industrial Relations, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 535-564.

Siebert, W & Zubanov, N 2010, '', Management Science, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 1398-1414.

Heywood, JS, Siebert, W & Wei, X 2010, '', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 1976-1995.

Chapter

Siebert, W 2015, . in C Coyne & R Coyne (eds), Flaws and Ceilings: Price Controls and the Damage They Cause., 4, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, pp. 45-71.

Siebert, S 2013, . in Marketing in the Service Industries: Marketing Service Industries. 3 edn, vol. 4, Taylor and Francis, pp. 108-124.

Other chapter contribution

Siebert, W 2014, . in P Booth (ed.), Economic Affairs. vol. Spring 2014, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, pp. 18-21.

Other contribution

Siebert, W 2015, . Institute of Economic Affairs, London.

Paper

Siebert, W, Heywood, J & Wei, X 2013, ''. <>

Siebert, W, Maimaiti, Y & Peng, F 2011, '', Paper presented at Work Pensions and Employment Group Conference 2011, 1/01/11.

Working paper

Darko, C, Carmichael, F, Ercolani, M, Siebert, S & Ozgen, C 2019 '' IZA 鈥� Institute of Labor Economics. <>

Bailey, R, Siebert, W & Addison, JT 2009 ''.