All Outputs (12)

Higher tax and less work: reverse “Keep up with the Joneses” and rising inequality (2023)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F., Jin, J., & Nolan, M. (in press). Higher tax and less work: reverse “Keep up with the Joneses” and rising inequality. Journal of Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-023-00821-2

To counteract excessive effort due to relative income comparison among identical agents, the literature suggests a tax response equal to the negative externality. Assuming a general income distribution, we show that an optimal tax must be higher unde... Read More about Higher tax and less work: reverse “Keep up with the Joneses” and rising inequality.

Employee participation, job quality, and inequality (2021)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2022). Employee participation, job quality, and inequality. Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 5(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPEO-05-2020-0014

Purpose: The purpose is to review the effects of employee participation (EP) in decision-making, ownership and profit on job quality, worker well-being and productivity, and derive policy recommendations from the findings. Design/methodology/approach... Read More about Employee participation, job quality, and inequality.

Income Status and Life Satisfaction (2021)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2021). Income Status and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23, 233–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00397-y

The importance of both income rank and relative income, as indicators of status, has long been recognised in the literature on life satisfaction and happiness. Recently, several authors have made explicit comparisons of the relative importance of the... Read More about Income Status and Life Satisfaction.

The impact of the Nitaqat programme on the Saudi labour market (2020)
Thesis
Bagazi, T. (2020). The impact of the Nitaqat programme on the Saudi labour market. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223278

This research evaluates Saudi Arabia's Nitaqat quota policy within a labour market context, where the target group (Saudis) is earning double the pay of the untargeted (non-Saudis) group1. We aim to examine the wage gap between the two groups to addr... Read More about The impact of the Nitaqat programme on the Saudi labour market.

League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010? (2019)
Journal Article
Nolan, M. A., Reynolds, M., & Trotter, S. (2020). League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010?. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 13(1), 257-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09302-w

This paper seeks to provide further evidence about ‘league table’ orderings for deprivation in local areas, especially for two domains – employment and education – which seem likely to be closely related. Rather than relying solely on administrative... Read More about League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010?.

Education, income and happiness: Panel evidence for the UK (2018)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (in press). Education, income and happiness: Panel evidence for the UK. Empirical economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-018-1586-5

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age, to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went from lo... Read More about Education, income and happiness: Panel evidence for the UK.

Testing the tunnel effect: comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels (2014)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F. R., Nolan, M. A., Steinhardt, M. F., & Ulph, D. (2014). Testing the tunnel effect: comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9012-3-24

In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effec... Read More about Testing the tunnel effect: comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels.

Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice: Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice (2014)
Journal Article
FitzRoy, F., & Nolan, M. (2016). Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice: Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice. The Manchester school, 84(1), 81-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12083

In a model with heterogeneous workers, quasi‐linear utility and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we investigate welfare with optimal linear taxes and wage subsidies under Rawlsian and utilitarian objectives, and the effects of conc... Read More about Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice: Welfare policies, relative income and majority choice.

Estimating the international tourism demand for Egypt : 'an econometric approach' (2012)
Thesis
Nosier, S. A. H. (2012). Estimating the international tourism demand for Egypt : 'an econometric approach'. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4214055

The thesis aims to identify the main factors that significantly affect tourism demand for Egypt. Both time series data and panel data are used to model and forecast tourism demand for Egypt from all origins, as well as three individual regions of ori... Read More about Estimating the international tourism demand for Egypt : 'an econometric approach'.

Does the local economic performance league table lie? Concentric banding and the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (2012)
Journal Article
Reynolds, M., Nolan, M. A., & Trotter, S. (2012). Does the local economic performance league table lie? Concentric banding and the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010. Local Economy, 27(4), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094212437834

Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England? (2009)
Journal Article
Burke, A. E., Fitzroy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2009). Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England?. Regional studies, 43(4), 529-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701827360

Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. It is found that the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in indivi... Read More about Is there a North-South divide in self-employment in England?.

What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy (2008)
Journal Article
Burke, A. E., FitzRoy, F. R., & Nolan, M. A. (2008). What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy. Small business economics, 31(2), 93-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-007-9086-6

The article makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches which... Read More about What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy.