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Research Interests
Labour economics and economics of social policy, including:
- Evaluation of labour market programs, welfare reforms;
- Disability, inactivity and unemployment;
- Education, substance use, peer effects;
- Sequence analysis and applications to labour market data
Research Statement
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. His research interests include: program evaluation and welfare reform; disability, unemployment and inactivity; education, peer effects and substance use; and sequence analysis of labour market data. He has published widely in economics and social science, including in Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Australian Economic Review, Contemporary Social Science, Economica, Economic & Social Review, Fiscal Studies, Industrial Relations, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Oxford Economic Papers, Regional Studies, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Social Science & Medicine, and Sociological Methods & Research. He is currently working on peer effects in education, VET reform, the links between homelessness and substance use, and disability benefits, among other things.
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Projects
- 2 Active
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R1968CPH: Administrative Data Research Centres 2018
O'Reilly, D., Maguire, A., McKenna, G., McVicar, D. & O'Neill, C.
25/09/2018 → …
Project: Research
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R1836NBE: The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NIL) to 2020
Shuttleworth, I., Gallagher, T., Maguire, A., McVicar, D. & Moriarty, J.
13/02/2018 → …
Project: Research
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Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero-hour Contracts in the UK
Farina, E., Green, C. & McVicar, D., Jul 2021, In: Industrial Relations. 60, 3, p. 370-399Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Measuring diagnostic heterogeneity using text-mining of the lived experiences of patients
Ghosh, C., McVicar, D., Davidson, G. & Shannon, C., 28 Jan 2021, In: BMC Psychiatry. 21, 60, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)20 Downloads (Pure) -
The Dynamics of Disability and Benefit Receipt in Britain
Jones, M. & McVicar, D., 30 Sep 2021, (Accepted) In: Oxford Economic Papers.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Evolution of Catholic/Protestant Unemployment Inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2016
Rowland, N., McVicar, D. & Shuttleworth, I., 09 Sep 2021, (Accepted) In: Population, Space and Place.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estimating the Impact of Disability Onset on Employment
Jones, M. & McVicar, D., 18 Apr 2020, (Early online date) In: Social Science & Medicine. 255, 113001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)20 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
Activities
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Health costs of war and trauma
Duncan McVicar (Member of the organising committee)
18 Jun 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Reducing the Generosity and Increasing the Conditionality of Welfare Benefits for People with Disability: Turning the Supertanker or Squeezing the Balloon?
Duncan McVicar (Presenter)
22 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Reducing the Generosity and Increasing the Conditionality of Welfare Benefits for People with Disability: Turning the Supertanker or Squeezing the Balloon?
Duncan McVicar (Presenter)
28 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
Duncan McVicar (Presenter)
26 Feb 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Duncan McVicar (Visitor)
26 Mar 2019 → 29 Mar 2019Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Press / Media
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Credit Where Credit’s Due: the Trump Administration’s Proposals for Parental Leave
27/05/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Disability, welfare reform and Northern Ireland's inactivity problem
14/05/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Manifesto check: the right and wrong of the Conservatives’ welfare proposals
14/04/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Fact check: who has been hit hardest by the bedroom tax?
31/03/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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A few dodgy private training colleges shouldn’t taint the rest
12/03/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other