Research Expertise:

Rates of return to human capital, over-education, job satisfaction, economics of disability, low pay
Recent grants from the ESRC, Welsh Assembly Government, Sector Skills Development Agency and Low Pay Commission.

PhD Areas and Topics in Economics

Administrative:

Director, WELMERC, 2002 – 2008

Other Roles:
Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn, member of the European Low Wage Employment Network (LOWeR), Vice President, International Association of Sports Economists, Member of the ESRC Work Attitudes Measurement Network.

Selected academic publications:

• Jones, M K, Jones, R J, Latreille, P L, and Sloane, P J
  Training, Job Satisfaction and Establishment Performance, Skills for Business Research Report No. 22, May 2007, 152pp.
• Jones, M K, Jones, R J, Murphy, P D, and Sloane, P J‘A persistence model of the national minimum wage’, EALE Conference Paper, University of Oslo, September 20 to 22, 2007, (also WELMERC Discussion Paper, 2007-02 and IZA Discussion Paper 2595, 2007).
• Metcalfe, R, and Sloane, P J
  ‘Human capital spillovers and economic performance in the workplace in 2004: some British evidence’, WELMERC Discussion Paper 2007-04
• Mavromaras, K, McGuinness, S, O’Leary, N C, Sloane, P J, and Fok, Y K
  ‘The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain’, WELMERC Discussion Paper 2007-07.
• O’Leary, N C, and Sloane, P J
  ‘Graduate earnings in the UK’ in Gokulsing M., editor, The New Shape of University Education in England: Inter-disciplinary Essays, Edward Mellen, 2007, 125-38.
• Sloane, P J
  ‘Coaching experience, playing experience and coaching tenure: a commentary’, International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, vol. 2, no. 2, September, 2007, 117-8.
• Jones, M K, Latreille, P L, and Sloane, P J
  ‘Disability and work: a review of the British evidence’, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, vol. 25-2, 2007, 473-98.
• Blackaby, D H, O’Leary, N C, Murphy, P D, Latreille, P L, and Sloane, P J
  ‘An analysis of the reservation wages of the economically inactive’, Economics Letters, vol. 97, 2007, 1-5.
• Jones, R J, and Sloane, P J
  ‘Low pay, higher pay and job satisfaction in Wales’, Spatial Economic Analysis, vol. 2, no. 2, June, 2007, 197-212.
• Sloane, P J
  ‘Over-education in the UK’, Australian Economic Review, vol. 40, no. 3, September, 2007, 286-91.
• Sloane, P J
  ‘The Economics of sport’, Insights, Melbourne Economics and Commerce, vol. 2, November, 2007, 15-19.
• Sloane, P J
  Tisdell C. editor, ‘The Economics of Leisure’, volumes I and II, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2006, in Leisure Studies, July, 2007.
• (with S. Grazier), Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK, Labour Economics (forthcoming)
• (with N. C. O’Leary) Rates of Returns to Degrees Across British Regions, Regional Studies, (forthcoming).
• (with R. J. Jones) Regional Differences in Job Satisfaction, Applied Economics, (forthcoming).
• Over-education in the UK in K. Mavromaras, editor, Policy Forum on Over-education and Overskilling, Australian Economic Review, vol. 40, no. 3, September, 2007, pp. 286-91.
• (with R. J. Jones) Low Pay, Higher Pay and Job Satisfaction in Wales, Spatial Economic Analysis, vol. 2, no. 2, June 2007, pp 197-216.
• (with D. H. Blackaby, N. C. O’Leary, P. D. Murphy, and P. L. Latreille) An Analysis of the Reservation Wages of the Economically Inactive, Economics Letters, vol. 97, 2007, pp 1-5.
• (with M. K. Jones and P. L. Latreille) Disability and Work; A Review of the British Evidence, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, vol. 25-2, 2007, pp 473-498.
• (with M.K. Jones and P.L. Latreille) Disability, Gender and the Labour Market in Wales, Regional Studies, vol. 58, November, 2006, pp 407-449.
• (with M.K. Jones and P.L. Latreille) Disability, Gender and the Labour Market, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 40, no. 8, July, 2006, pp 823-845.
• (with N. O’Leary) The Return to a University Education in Great Britain, National Institute Economic Review, July, 2005, pp 75-89
• (with H.Battu) Over-education and Ethnic Minorities in Britain, Manchester School, Vol. 74, No. 4, July, 2004, pp 535-559.
• (with Battu H. and Belfield R.) Human Capital Spillovers in the Workplace, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 65(5), 2003, pp 575-594.
• (with R. McNabb and S. Pal) Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: The Case of University Students in England and Wales, Economica, vol. 69, no. 275, August, 2002, pp 481-503.
• (with M. Ward) Cohort Effects and the Job Satisfaction of Academics, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 8, 2001, pp 787-791.