Joanne Lindley

Jo Lindley’s main research interests are labour economics, with a particular focus on the economics of inequality and disadvantage. She moved to King’s in 2013 from the University of Surrey. Her teaching expertise is in labour economics, applied econometrics and statistics.

Jo’s PhD thesis was entitled 'The Economics of Racial Disadvantage' but since its completion in 2000 her research interests have slowly moved towards more mainstream topics in the economics of inequality domain.

Her recent work on within-graduate wage inequality investigates the mechanisms that underpin the growth in postgraduate study, as well as investigating the role of subject of degree, paying particular attention to the relationship between the supply of skills and changing employer demand for skills, and the extent to which the latter has arisen from changing technology and/or globalisation.

Jo is a member of the Society of Labor Economists and the European Association of Labour Economists and a regular participant at their annual meetings.

Publications

• The Social Mobility of Home Ownership: To What Extent Have the Millennials Fared Worse? 17 May 2019
• Are there Unexplained Financial Rewards for the Snakes in Suits? A Labour Market Analysis of the Dark Triad of Personality 20 September 2017
• Finance Sector Wage Growth and the Role of Human Capital 15 February 2017
• Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States 01 February 2017
• The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium 01 April 2016
• Policy evaluation via a statistical control: A non-parametric evaluation of the 'Want2Work' active labour market policy 01 December 2015
• Lousy Pay with Lousy Conditions: The Role of Occupational Desegregation in Explaining the UK Gender Pay and Work Intensity Gaps. 13 August 2015
• Growth in Within Graduate Wage Inequality: The Role of Subjects, Cognitive Skill Dispersion and Occupational Concentration 01 January 2015
• Spatial Changes in the College Wage Premium 01 January 2014
• The Over-Education of UK Immigrants and Minority Ethnic Groups: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey 01 February 2009