Dr Michael Nolan

Research interests

My research interests are broadly categorised as labour economics and applied microeconometrics. Whilst most of my papers have involved the econometric analysis of empirical data, some have instead been theoretical or methodological. My published work has ranged over a number of topics, including absenteeism from the workplace, self-employment, the restriction of working time, the north-south divide within England, local economic performance league tables and the definition of local areas, happiness and life satisfaction, the role of relative income in determining the attractiveness of a universal basic income (compared to other welfare policies), and the role of employee participation in improving job quality and job satisfaction while reducing inequality.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Nolan is willing to consider supervising research students in labour economics and applied microeconometrics, especially on topics in the fields of absenteeism from the workplace, duration modelling of labour market states, and the economics of earnings, employment and self-employment.

Completed PhDs

- Shereen Nosier, Estimating the international tourism demand for Egypt (external examiner, Professor Sam Cameron, University of Bradford)

- Roland Getor, Improving local labour market performance in the UK (external examiner, Dr John Sutherland, visiting researcher at University of Strathclyde)

- Tahani Bagazi (initially joint supervisor with Dr Zheng Wang, then with Dr Gabriele Amorosi)