Staff Biography

Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions:

• Nuffield College, Oxford University - Warden

CEP Publications:

• The Impact of Immigration on Occupational Wages: Evidence from Britain
  Stephen Nickell, Jumana Saleheen, October 2009
  Paper No' SERCDP0034: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
  Richard Layard, Guy Mayraz, Stephen Nickell, March 2009
  Paper No' CEPDP0918: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Life on the Monetary Policy Committee
  Stephen Nickell, October 2007
  Paper No' CEPCP237: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Marginal Utility of Income
  Richard Layard, Guy Mayraz, Stephen Nickell, March 2007
  Paper No' CEPDP0784: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Patterns of Work Across the OECD
  Giulia Faggio, Stephen Nickell, June 2006
  Paper No' CEPDP0730: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Download zipped data files associated with this paper.
  
  
• Inactivity Among Prime Age Men in the UK
  Giulia Faggio, Stephen Nickell, February 2005
  Paper No' CEPDP0673: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Tackling Unemployment: Europe's Successes and Failures
  Richard Jackman, Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, February 2005
  Paper No' CEPCP175: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman is published by Oxford University Press (second edition, 2005; first edition, 1991).
  
  
• Employment and Taxes
  Stephen Nickell, May 2004
  Paper No' CEPDP0634: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Poverty and Worklessness
  Stephen Nickell, October  2003
  Paper No' CEPCP148: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article is an edited version of "Poverty and Worklessness in Britain", CEP Discussion Paper No. 579, which was Steve Nickell's Presidential Address to the Royal Economic Society.
  
  
• Poverty and Worklessness in Britain
  Stephen Nickell, July 2003
  Paper No' CEPDP0579: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure.
  Stephen Nickell, July 2003
  Paper No' CEPDP0577: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Full Employment Is Not Just a Dream
  Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, February 2003
  Paper No' CEPCP139: Read Abstract | Full paper
  See also Jaap de Koning, Richard Layard, Steve Nickell and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen, "Policies for Full Employment", Department for Works and Pensions Report, March 2004
  
  
• Patterns of Growth
  Stephen Nickell, Stephen Redding, Joanna Swaffield, October  2002
  Paper No' CEPCP132:
  
  
• Educational Attainment, Labour Market Institutions, and the Structure of Production
  Stephen Nickell, Stephen Redding, Joanna Swaffield, September 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0545: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Why Do Jobless Rates Differ?
  Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel, Glenda Quintini, October  2001
  Paper No' CEPCP118:
  
  
• The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s - Preliminary Version
  Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel, Glenda Quintini, July 2001
  Paper No' CEPDP0502: Read Abstract | Full paper
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• Nominal Wage Rigidity and the Rate of Inflation
  Stephen Nickell, Glenda Quintini, April 2001
  Paper No' CEPDP0489: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Technological Innovation and Performance in the United Kingdom
  Stephen Nickell, John Van Reenen, January 2001
  Paper No' CEPDP0488: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• A Picture of Job Insecurity Facing British Men
  Patricia Tracy Jones, Stephen Nickell, Glenda Quintini, November 2000
  Paper No' CEPDP0479: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Wage Equations, Wage Curves and All That
  B Bell, Stephen Nickell, Glenda Quintini, September 2000
  Paper No' CEPDP0472: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Employment Patterns in OECD Countries
  Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, March 2000
  Paper No' CEPDP0448: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Mirage or Miracle?
  Stephen Nickell, Jan Van Ours, February 2000
  Paper No' CEPCP085:
  
  
• The Effectiveness of Top Management Groups in Manufacturing Organisations
  J Dawson, Stephen Nickell, M Patterson, M West, November 1999
  Paper No' CEPDP0436: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance
  Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, September 1998
  Paper No' CEPDP0407: Read Abstract
  
  
• Human Capital Investment and Innovation: What Are The Connections?
  Stephen Nickell, D Nicolitsas, October 1997
  Paper No' CEPDP0370: Read Abstract
  
  
• Does Innovation Encourage Investment in Fixed Capital?
  Stephen Nickell, D Nicolitsas, October 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0309: Read Abstract
  
  
• What Makes Firms Perform Well?
  N Dryden, Stephen Nickell, D Nicolitsas, October 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0308: Read Abstract
  
  
• Combatting Unemployment: Is Flexibility Enough?
  Richard Jackman, Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, March 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0293: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Would Cutting Payroll Taxes on the Unskilled Have a Significant Effect on Unemployment?
  B Bell, Stephen Nickell, February 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0276: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• How Does Financial Pressure Affect Firms?
  Stephen Nickell, D Nicolitsas, October 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0266: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Labour Market Dynamics in OECD Countries
  Stephen Nickell, July 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0255: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Wages
  Stephen Nickell, D Nicolitsas, December 1994
  Paper No' CEPDP0219: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Competition and Corporate Performance
  Stephen Nickell, November 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0182: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Cohort Size Effects on the Wages of Young Men in Britain 1961-89
  Stephen Nickell, February 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0120:
  
  
• Unemployment in the OECD Countries
  Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, June 1992
  Paper No' CEPDP0081:
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Wages, Unions, Insiders and Product Market Power
  Stephen Nickell, J Vainiomaki, S Wadhwani, May 1992
  Paper No' CEPDP0077: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Productivity Growth in UK Companies
  Stephen Nickell, S Wadhwani, M Wall, March 1991
  Paper No' CEPDP0026: Read Abstract