Professor Steven McIntosh
School of Economics
Professor of Economics
+44 114 222 3406
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School of Economics
Room C60
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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Steve graduated from the University of Leicester in 1990, obtained an MSc from the University of Warwick in 1992, and completed his PhD at the London School of Economics in 1997.
He then worked as a researcher in the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics until 2005, when he moved to the University of Sheffield to take up the position of Reader.
Steve is a member of the European Association of Labour Economists, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Education and Work.
Steve has undertaken research for a wide range of UK government departments, in particular the Department for Education, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (formerly Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), the Department for Work and Pensions and the Welsh Assembly Government, as well as for international bodies such as the European Union Commission and UNESCO. He was made a Professor of Economics in January 2016.
- Research interests
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Steve researches in the areas of Labour Economics and the Economics of Education. His research focuses on the factors associated with education choices and outcomes, and what effect educational attainment has on labour market outcomes. He is particularly interested in inequality in education opportunities and attainment, considering factors such as family socioeconomic status.
Steve's research uses national survey data, and increasingly linked administrative data sets, that follow cohorts of young people throughout their educational journey and into the labour market. A particular interest is in vocational education and skills, looking at how such routes offer an alternative to more academic education, and the extent to which they provide the skills needed in the labour market.
Steve is interested in supervising any applied microeconometric PhDs, particularly in the areas of labour or education.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Selection and performance in post-compulsory education. Review of Development Economics, 26(1), 3-31. View this article in WRRO
- Variation in the labour market rewards to vocational qualifications in the UK. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 68(5), 535-552. View this article in WRRO
- Over-education in Cyprus : micro and macro determinants, persistence and state dependence. A dynamic panel analysis. The Manchester School, 89(2), 172-189. View this article in WRRO
- Does the increase in competition between schools improve the quality of the service? The role of educational reform in Chile. Journal of Development Studies, 55(8), 1799-1815. View this article in WRRO
- Finance Sector Wage Growth and the Role of Human Capital. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 79(4), 570-591. View this article in WRRO
- Policy evaluation via a statistical control: A non-parametric evaluation of the 'Want2Work' active labour market policy. Economic Modelling, 51, 635-645. View this article in WRRO
- Growth in within graduate wage inequality: The role of subjects, cognitive skill dispersion and occupational concentration. Labour Economics, 37, 101-111. View this article in WRRO
- Do the maths: An analysis of the gender gap in mathematics in Africa. Economics of Education Review, 46, 1-22. View this article in WRRO
- The Impact of Distance to Nearest Education Institution on the Post-compulsory Education Participation Decision. Urban Studies, 50(4), 742-758.
- Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 73(1), 40-58.
- Is there a genuine under-utilization of skills amongst the over-qualified?. APPL ECON, 39(4-6), 427-439.
- Recruiting and retaining teachers in the UK: An analysis of graduate occupation choice from the 1960s to the 1990s. ECONOMICA, 74(293), 69-96.
- Further Analysis of the Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications*. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 68(2), 225-251.
- The returns to apprenticeship training. Journal of Education and Work, 18(3), 251-282.
- Job satisfaction in the low wage service sector. Applied Economics, 35(10), 1241-1254.
- The Utilization of Education and Skills: Evidence from Britain. The Manchester School, 70(6), 792-811.
- The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in Britain. Bulletin of Economic Research, 54(3), 249-274.
- The Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in Four European Countries. Education Economics, 9(1), 69-90.
- Measuring and assessing the impact of basic skills on labour market outcomes. Oxford Economic Papers, 53(3), 453-481.
- Measuring low skills in Europe: how useful is the ISCED framework?. Oxford Economic Papers, 53(3), 564-581.
- The intensification of work in Europe. Labour Economics, 8(2), 291-308.
- Union Power, Cost of Job Loss, and Workers' Effort. ILR Review, 51(3), 363-383.
- Selection and performance in post-compulsory education. Review of Development Economics, 26(1), 3-31. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching activities
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I teach the module 'Statistical Methods For Economics' to single honours students in their first year. The focus of the module is very much about using statistical methods, in order to describe data and to test hypotheses. My aim is to ensure that all students feel comfortable using statistical methods, to support their economic theory, and to understand the world around them. The module prepares students for further study in econometrics in their second year, and is of use in many applied modules.