Staff Biography

Biography:

Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions:

• London School of Economics - Professor of Industrial Relations
• Low Pay Commission - Commissioner
• Union Modernisation Fund - Board Member

CEP Publications:

• A shortage of nurses?
  David Metcalf, June 2016
  Paper No' CEPCP476: Read Abstract | Full paper
  For further details, see the MAC’s report , published in March 2016.
  
  
• The ‘investor route’ to UK citizenship
  David Metcalf, October 2014
  Paper No' CEPCP430: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Immigration and the UK Labour Market
  David Metcalf, December 2012
  Paper No' CEPCP381: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Why Has the British National Minimum Wage Had Little or No Impact on Employment?
  David Metcalf, April 2007
  Paper No' CEPDP0781: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• In brief: Britain's Minimum Wage: What Impact on Pay and Jobs?
  David Metcalf, December 2006
  Paper No' CEPCP217: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises his December 2006 paper 'On the Impact of the British National Minimum Wage on Pay and Employment'
  
  
• Trade Unions in China
  Jianwei Li, David Metcalf, June 2006
  Paper No' CEPCP204: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'Chinese Unions: Nugatory or Transforming? An Alice Analysis' by David Metcalf and Jianwei Li, CEP Discussion Paper No. 708 and forthcoming in Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.
  
  
• Chinese Unions: Nugatory or Transforming? An 'Alice' Analysis
  Jianwei Li, David Metcalf, December 2005
  Paper No' CEPDP0708: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?
  Sue Fernie, David Metcalf, June 2005
  Paper No' CEPCP178: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?, edited by Sue Fernie and David Metcalf and published by Routledge (2005), summarises the output from CEP's five-year research programme on the future of unions in modern Britain, which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust
  
  
• Race Relations
  David Metcalf, February 2004
  Paper No' CEPCP156: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article is based on evidence submitted to the investigation by the Stable and Stud Staff Commission, 2004.
  
  
• Unions Past, Present and Future
  David Metcalf, February 2003
  Paper No' CEPCP141: Read Abstract | Full paper
  For background information to this article please see The Future of Unions website
  
  
• Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence
  David Metcalf, July 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0539: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Turning the Tide
  David Metcalf, June 2001
  Paper No' CEPCP113:
  
  
• British Unions: Dissolution or Resurgence Revisited
  David Metcalf, April 2001
  Paper No' CEPDP0493: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Fighting for Equality
  David Metcalf, June 2000
  Paper No' CEPCP097:
  
  
• Unions and the Sword of Justice: Unions and Pay Systems, Pay Inequality, Pay Discrimination and Low Pay
  A Charlwood, K Hansen, David Metcalf, March 2000
  Paper No' CEPDP0452: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The British National Minimum Wage
  David Metcalf, March 1999
  Paper No' CEPDP0419: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Way Out?
  David Metcalf, February 1999
  Paper No' CEPCP066:
  
  
• (Not)Hanging on the Telephone: Payment systems in the New Sweatshops
  Sue Fernie, David Metcalf, May 1998
  Paper No' CEPDP0390: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Low Pay And Minimum Wages: The British Evidence
  Sue Fernie, David Metcalf, September 1996
  Paper No' CEPSP02: Read Abstract
  
  
• It's Not What You Pay, It's the Way That You Pay It
  Sue Fernie, David Metcalf, June 1996
  Paper No' CEPCP007:
  
  
• It''s Not What You Pay
  Sue Fernie, David Metcalf, May 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0295: Read Abstract
  
  
• Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Market Outcomes in Spain
  David Metcalf, S Milner, G Nombela, May 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0244: Read Abstract
  
  
• Participation
  Sue Fernie, David Metcalf, March 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0232: Read Abstract
  
  
• The Effect of Minimum Wages on UK Agriculture
  Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, David Metcalf, Jonathan Wadsworth, S Woodland, August 1994
  Paper No' CEPDP0204: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Spanish Pay Setting Institutions and Performance Outcomes
  David Metcalf, S Milner, June 1994
  Paper No' CEPDP0198: Read Abstract
  
  
• Transformation of British Industrial Relations? Institutions, Conduct and Outcomes 1980-1990
  David Metcalf, March 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0151: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Industrial Relations and Economic Performance
  David Metcalf, March 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0129: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Do Strikes Pay?
  P Ingram, David Metcalf, Jonathan Wadsworth, August 1992
  Paper No' CEPDP0092: Read Abstract
  
  
• Signals and Cycles Productivity Growth and Changes in Union Status in British Companies
  Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, David Metcalf, August 1991
  Paper No' CEPDP0049: Read Abstract
  
  
• Strike Incidence and Duration in British Manufacturing Industry in the 1980s
  P Ingram, David Metcalf, August 1991
  Paper No' CEPDP0048: Read Abstract
  
  
• A Century of UK Strike Activity: An Alternative Perspective
  David Metcalf, S Milner, February 1991
  Paper No' CEPDP0022: Read Abstract