Professor Andy Dickerson
Andy is Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield, having previously been based at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research until September 2006. His research activities are focused primarily on the operation and functioning of labour markets, with a particular emphasis on the measurement and value of skills and on the relationship between skills, productivity, poverty and inequality. He has undertaken research for a wide range of government departments and agencies, as well as for sponsors such as the Leverhulme Trust, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the ESRC.
Andy is one of the UK's foremost experts on the distribution and returns to qualifications and skills by sector and geography and has published widely on these matters, as well as on the incidence and intensity of workplace training, on the impact of the National Minimum Wage, on job insecurity and the quality of jobs, and on sectoral and spatial differences in productivity. Current research projects include re-examining the relationships between training and job turnover, and between wages and individuals’ productivity over the lifecycle.
Andy coordinates the DWP-sponsored Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group (WPEG) – a research network promoting dialogue between around 600 academic and Government economists and policy makers.