Tim Barmby

University of Aberdeen

Contact Information

Telephone Number: 01224 272 158

Email address: tim.barmby@abdn.ac.uk

Homepage: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/economics/staffmember.php?ID=pec198

Department Telephone Number: 01224 272 167

Department Fax Number: 01224 272 181

 

Tim obtained his BSc from Hull University and he holds an MSocSc degree from Birmingham University and a PhD from Newcastle University.

Previous Employment

After having research assistant jobs at Kent and Manchester, Tim lectured at Leeds, Hull, Loughborough and Newcastle. He held a Readership in Labour Economics at Newcastle, and then a Chair in Economics at Durham before moving to Aberdeen in 2004.

Current Research Interests

Applied Personnel and Labour Economics, in particular the empirical modelling of the incentive effects of labour contracts. He has published widely in the Labour Economics area, with papers in the Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, The Economic Journal and Labour Economics amongst others. He has held grants from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust and private industry and has been an academic visitor at Curtin University in Western Australia, CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg, Vrije Universiteit and the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, Centre for Labour Market and Social Research (CLS) at the University of Aarhus, CentER for Economic Research at Tilburg University, and Monash University.

Recent Publications

(Audas, R., Barmby, T. and Treble, J.), Luck, Effort and Reward in an Organisational Hierarchy, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming, 2004

(Barmby, T and Sibly, S.), Analysing Absence Behaviour Using Event History Models, Managerial and Decision Economics, forthcoming, April, 2004

(Barmby, T., Ercolani, M. and Treble, J.), Sickness Absence in the UK: 1984-2002, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol 11 no 1 00 65-88, 2004

(Barmby, T. and Bridges, S), An Analysis of the Theory of Biased Contests in an Organisational Setting, International Journal of Manpower (special issue on Personnel Economics), Vol 24:(7) pp 836-843, 2003

(Barmby, T), Worker Absenteeism: A Discrete Hazard Model with Bivariate Heterogeneity, Labour Economics, Vol 9 pp 469-476, 2002

(Ercolani, M Barmby, T and Treble, J.), Sickness Absence: An International Comparison, The Economic Journal , Vol 112 June pp F315-F331, 2002

(Barmby, T, Bridges, S., van Gameren, E. and Treble, J. ), The Internal Economics of The Firm: Further Evidence from Personnel Data, Labour Economics, Vol 8 pp 531-552, 2001

(Barmby, T., with Nina Smith), Household Labour Supply in Britain and Denmark: Some Interpretations Using a Model of Pareto Optimal Behaviour, Applied Economics, Vol 33 pp. 1109-1116, 2001

(Barmby, T., with Rainder Winkelmann and Michael Nolan), Contractual Workdays and Absence, The Manchester School, Vol 69(3): 269-75, 2001