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Biography

Rebecca is an associate at the Centre for Economic Performance. Her primary field is Labour Economics, and her research is centred around the themes of crime, education, and racial inequalities in the labour market. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2025 and is now a Lecturer of Microeconomics at the Amsterdam School of Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

Current areas of research include:

Occupational choice in labour markets
Racial discrimination in labour markets

Publications

Journal article

Ethnic minority and migrant pay gaps over the life-cycle

It is well-known that ethnic minority and migrant workers have lower average pay than the White UK-born workforce. However, we know much less about how these gaps vary over the life-cycle because of data limitations. We ... Read more...

Tessa Hall, Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose

22 November 2024

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Ethnic minorities and the UK labour market

Contrary to the impression given by the Sewell Report, there has been little change in disparities in pay, employment and unemployment among different ethnic groups in the UK over the past 25 years. Indeed, as analysis o... Read more...

Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose

15 June 2021

Blog

Contrary to the impression given by the Sewell Report, things for ethnic minorities in the UK labour market are not getting better

Using estimates from the Labour Force Survey, Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose fill in some of the gaps of the government's Sewell Report on race and ethnic disparities. Comparing disparities in pay, employment, and unemplo... Read more...

Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose

19 April 2021

Blog

Ethnic minorities and the UK labour market: are things getting better?

Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose compare disparities in pay, employment and unemployment among different ethnic groups in the UK finding that there has been little change over the past 25 years. Indeed, for black, Pakistani... Read more...

Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose

07 April 2021