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social policy evaluation; disability and the labour market; zero hours contracts and other forms of precarious employment; education; health and health behaviours

20002024

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Research Interests

Labour economics, economics of social policy, eduation economics, health economics, including:

  •  Evaluation of labour market programs, welfare reforms;
  •  Disability, inactivity and unemployment;
  •  Zero hours contracts and casual employment;
  •  Educational achievement, school exclusion, peer effects;
  •  Substance use, health impacts of air pollution; 
  •  Sequence analysis 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; zero hours contracts; education; substance use; the health effects of air pollution; and sequence analysis of labour market data. He has published widely in economics and social science, with over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. He is currently working on health effects of air pollution, school exclusion, and disability benefit reform, among other things.

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