Paul Allanson

University of Dundee

Contact Information

Telephone Number: 01382 344377 

Email Address: p.f.allanson@dundee.ac.uk 

Homepage: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/econman/staff/pallanson.html

Department Telephone Number: 01382 344371 

Department Fax Number: 01382 344691 

 

Paul Allanson has been a lecturer in the Department of Economic Studies at the University of Dundee since 1995.  He is a graduate of Newcastle University (BSc Agric Econ) with a PhD from Manchester University and was formerly Lord Richard Percy Fellow in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle.

Research Interests

Applied microeconomics including recent work on wage discrimination in the South African labour market; the distribution of agricultural support and the welfare of the farming community; imperfect competition among multiproduct firms. 

A Range of Recent Publications

"No End To The Racial Wage Hierarchy In South Africa?”, with J. Atkins and T. Hinks, Review of Development Economics, 2002, Vol. 6, No. 3, 442-459

"A Multilateral Decomposition of Racial Wage Differentials in the 1994 South African Labour Market”, with J. Atkins and T. Hinks, Journal of Development Studies, 2000, Vol. 37,  No. 1, pp.93-120.

“The distribution of agricultural support in Scotland”, Scottish Economic Policy Network  Report, 2003, pp.26. 

“On the comparative evaluation of agricultural income distributions in the European Union”, with L. Hubbard, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1999, Vol. 26, 1-17.

“Multiproduct firms and market structure: an explorative application to the product life cycle”, with C. Montagna, Dundee Discussion Papers, No. 101, 1999, pp.21.