Steven McIntosh

Reader in Economics

Room 437
Telephone +44 114 22 23406
Fax +44 114 22 23458

Steve graduated from the University of Leicester in 1990, obtained an MSc from the University of Warwick in 1992, and completed a PhD at the London School of Economics in 1997. Since then he has worked as a Research Officer in the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He joined the University of Sheffield as a Reader in September 2005.

Professional Standing

Steve is an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance, and is a member of the Royal Economics Society and the European Association of Labour Economists. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education and Work and he has carried out research and consultancy work for a number of government departments and for UNESCO.

Research Interests:

Applied microeconomics
Labour economics – wage inequality; the labour market position of the low-skilled; job satisfaction; workers’ effort; the public sector.
The economics of education – labour market impacts of qualifications; 14-19 education; vocational education, in-work training and apprenticeships; the demand for skills and the match between this demand and the supply of skills; the measurement of skills.

Current Research:

An evaluation of the Want2Work pilot (funded by the Welsh Assembly Government)
The wage returns to vocational qualifications by subject
Explanations of why some people are in jobs for which they are overeducated
The intergenerational transmission of human capital

PhD supervision

Current PhD Students:

Justin Abdy: ‘Higher Education in Wales: Who Goes and Who Gains’
Nidia Veitch: ‘Human Capital Investments in South Africa’
Uzir Mahidin: `Trade and the Environment: An Empirical Analysis- The Case of Malaysia’

Areas I am interested in supervising