Projects per year
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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
Research Output
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Estimating the Impact of Disability Onset on Employment
Jones, M. & McVicar, D., 18 Apr 2020, In : Social Science & Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Is Casual Employment in Australia Bad For Workers’ Health?
Hahn, M., McVicar, D. & Wooden, M., 08 Oct 2020, In : Occupational and Environmental Medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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?
Broadway, B. & McVicar, D., 31 Aug 2020, In : Scandinavian Journal of Economics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates
McVicar, D., 01 Jun 2020, (world of labor)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labor Supply and Employment Outcomes in Australia
Broadway, B., Kalb, G., McVicar, D. & Martin, B., 02 Apr 2020, In : Feminist Economics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
Activities
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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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The dynamics of disability and benefit receipt in Britain
Duncan McVicar (Invited speaker)
26 Jun 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
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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
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