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Melanie Jones

Professor Melanie Jones

Professor of Economics

Cardiff Business School

Email
JonesM116@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75079
Campuses
Aberconway Building, Room B32a, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Comment
Media commentator
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Melanie joined Cardiff Business School in 2015 having previously held positions in the University of Sheffield and Swansea University.

Her research in empirical labour economics involves the quantitative analysis of large scale secondary data.  She has worked on a variety of policy relevant issues in collaboration with a range of external organisations including the Low Pay Commission and the Office of Manpower Economics the but has a particular interest in gender equality and the interaction between health and the labour market.

Her recent research has tried to answer questions such as Is the gender pay gap larger in the public or private sector? What can we learn from the narrow gender pay gap in Northern Ireland? Is there earnings discrimination against disabled individuals?  Do older workers have more accidents and injuries at work?  Do disabled individuals have a different perception of their treatment at work? She is committed to using this evidence to inform policy and practice such as through the collaboration disability@work: www.disabilityatwork.co.uk

This work has been published in high quality international journals such as Oxford Economic Papers, Economica, Economics Letters, Cambridge Journal of Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Social Science and Medicine, and Work, Employment and Society.

Melanie is a member of the ESRC funded research centre WISERD, an IZA Research Fellow and lead for the ESRC Productivity Institute Wales Productivity Forum. She is an elected member of the Royal Economic Society Council and a member of the Trustee Board. She is currently an editor at the British Journal of Industrial Relations and a member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel C and the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration. She is also an ONS Fellow, member of their Economic Experts Working Group and the theme lead for Economic Intelligence in the Cardiff University Strategic Partnership with the ONS.   

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Research

Primary research interests

  • Labour economics
  • The economics of disability
  • Regional economics
  • Health economics

Research projects

Current Research Project: ESRC Funded Research Centre WISERD https://wiserd.ac.uk/

ESRC Productivity Institute Wales Productivity Forum https://www.productivity.ac.uk/regions-nations/wales-regional-forum/

Teaching

Teaching commitments

  • BS2547 British Economy

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD in Labour Economics, Swansea University
  • MSc  Business Economics, Swansea University
  • BSc Economics, Swansea University

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising students in the area of labour economics and have a particular interest in gender equality and health and disability at work.

Current supervision

John Poole

John Poole

Research Associate

Suzanna Nesom

Suzanna Nesom

Research student

Julia Diniz

Julia Diniz

Research student

Alex Gill

Alex Gill

Research student

Kelvis Merino Perez

Kelvis Merino Perez

Research student