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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
R1968CPH: Administrative Data Research Centres 2018
O'Reilly, D., Maguire, A., McKenna, G., McVicar, D. & O'Neill, C.
25/09/2018 → …
Project: Research
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
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
Does drug use lead to homelessness for young, disadvantaged people?
McVicar, D., Moschion, J. & van Ours, J., 01 Jun 2019, In : Significance. 16, 3, p. 10-11Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
McVicar, D., Park, A. & McGuinness, S., 01 Jun 2019, In : IZA Journal of Labor Economics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
Farina, E., Green, C. & McVicar, D., 28 Nov 2019, In : British Journal of Industrial Relations.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Achievement Effects from New Peers: Who Matters to Whom?
McVicar, D., Moschion, J. & Ryan, C., 01 Aug 2018, In : Economics of Education Review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Prizes
Activities
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 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
The dynamics of disability and benefit receipt in Britain
Duncan McVicar (Invited speaker)26 Jun 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
Duncan McVicar (Presenter)26 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Health costs of war and trauma
Duncan McVicar (Member of the organising committee)18 Jun 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press / Media
Credit Where Credit’s Due: the Trump Administration’s Proposals for Parental Leave
27/05/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Disability, welfare reform and Northern Ireland's inactivity problem
14/05/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Manifesto check: the right and wrong of the Conservatives’ welfare proposals
14/04/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
Fact check: who has been hit hardest by the bedroom tax?
31/03/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
A few dodgy private training colleges shouldn’t taint the rest
12/03/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other