Professor Nigel O'Leary

Professor

Economics

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Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5971-9306

About

Nigel is a Professor of Economics, deputy director of WELMERC (Welsh Labour Market Evaluation and Research Centre) and a co-director at WISERD (Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research Data and Methods). His research interests sit broadly within applied labour economics and he has a special interest in regional and well-being considerations. He has a wealth of research and consultancy experience in the areas of labour economics and regional labour markets, economic development and inequalities, and educational attainment. Clients have included BP, Welsh Government, Welsh Development Agency, Equal Opportunities Commission and CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) amongst others.

Areas Of Expertise

Labour Economics
The Economics of Wellbeing
Regional Economics
The Economics of Education

Publications

Research Highlights

Mann, S., O'Leary, N., & Blackaby, D. (2022). Sexual orientation, political trust, and same-sex relationship recognition policies: evidence from Europe. Public Choice, 192(3-4), 331-355.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00988-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60519
O'Leary, N., Li, I., Gupta, P., & Blackaby, D. (2020). Wellbeing trajectories around life events in Australia. Economic Modelling, 93, 499-509.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.08.021, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55102
Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., & Murphy, P. (2008). Employment discrimination in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement. Economics Letters, 99(2), 282-285.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50831
Blackaby, D., Leslie, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., & O'Leary, N. (2005). Born in Britain: How are Native Ethnic Minorities Faring in the British Labour Market?. Economics Letters, 88, 370-375.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50836
Blackaby, D., O'Leary, N., Murphy, P., & O'Leary, N. (2004). Quantile Regression Estimates of the Union Wage Effect for Great Britain. The Manchester School, 72, 497-514.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50839
Murphy, P., Blackaby, D., O'Leary, N., & Staneva, A. (2020). Understanding What Has Been Happening to the Public‐Sector Pay Premium in Great Britain: A Distributional Approach Based on the Labour Force Survey. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58(2), 273-300.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12474, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50294
Mann, S., Blackaby, D., O’Leary, N., & O'Leary, N. (2019). Sexual identity and wellbeing: A distributional analysis. Economics Letters, 181, 133-136.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.04.023, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50056
Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O’Leary, N., Staneva, A., & O'Leary, N. (2018). Regional pay? The public/private sector pay differential. Regional Studies, 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2017.1331295, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33663
Kidd, M., O'Leary, N., & Sloane, P. (2017). The impact of mobility on early career earnings: A quantile regression approach for UK graduates. Economic Modelling, 62, 90-102.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.01.011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31847
Sloane, P. & O'Leary, N. (2016). Too many graduates? An application of the Gottschalk–Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001–2010. Oxford Economic Papers, 68(4), 945-967.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpw027, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26504

All Research

Journal Articles

Wang, Y., Li, J., O'Leary, N., & Shao, J. (2024). Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia. Utilities Policy, 86, 101705
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2023.101705, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65379
Wang, Y., Li, J., O'Leary, N., & Shao, J. (2024). Banding: A game changer in the Renewables Obligation scheme in the United Kingdom. Energy Economics, 130, 107331
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107331, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65457
Mann, S., O'Leary, N., & Blackaby, D. (2022). Sexual orientation, political trust, and same-sex relationship recognition policies: evidence from Europe. Public Choice, 192(3-4), 331-355.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00988-0, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60519
O'Leary, N., Li, I., Gupta, P., & Blackaby, D. (2020). Wellbeing trajectories around life events in Australia. Economic Modelling, 93, 499-509.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.08.021, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55102
Murphy, P., Blackaby, D., O'Leary, N., & Staneva, A. (2020). Understanding What Has Been Happening to the Public‐Sector Pay Premium in Great Britain: A Distributional Approach Based on the Labour Force Survey. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58(2), 273-300.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12474, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50294
Mann, S., Blackaby, D., O’Leary, N., & O'Leary, N. (2019). Sexual identity and wellbeing: A distributional analysis. Economics Letters, 181, 133-136.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.04.023, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50056
Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O’Leary, N., Staneva, A., & O'Leary, N. (2018). Regional pay? The public/private sector pay differential. Regional Studies, 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2017.1331295, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa33663
Kidd, M., O'Leary, N., & Sloane, P. (2017). The impact of mobility on early career earnings: A quantile regression approach for UK graduates. Economic Modelling, 62, 90-102.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2017.01.011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31847
Sloane, P. & O'Leary, N. (2016). Too many graduates? An application of the Gottschalk–Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001–2010. Oxford Economic Papers, 68(4), 945-967.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpw027, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26504
Gupta, P., Mishra, T., O’Leary, N., Parhi, M., & O'Leary, N. (2015). The distributional effects of adaption and anticipation to ill health on subjective wellbeing. Economics Letters, 136, 99-102.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.010, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23649
Mavromaras, K., McGuinness, S., O'Leary, N., Sloane, P., & Wei, Z. (2013). Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on University Graduates. Economic Record, 89(286), 382-395.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12054, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14439
O'Leary, N. & SLOANE, P. (2011). The Wage Premium For University Education in Great Britain During a Decade of Change. The Manchester School, 79(4), 740-764.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2010.02189.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6986
MAVROMARAS, K., MCGUINNESS, S., O'Leary, N., SLOANE, P., & FOK, Y. (2010). THE PROBLEM OF OVERSKILLING IN AUSTRALIA AND BRITAIN. The Manchester School, 78(3), 219-241.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2009.02136.x, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa5230
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2009.02136.x/full
Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., & Murphy, P. (2008). Employment discrimination in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement. Economics Letters, 99(2), 282-285.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50831
O'Leary, N. & Sloane, P. (2008). Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions. Regional Studies, 42(2), 199-213.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400601142811, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa5229
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a783070749~frm=abslink
Blackaby, D., Leslie, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., & O'Leary, N. (2005). Born in Britain: How are Native Ethnic Minorities Faring in the British Labour Market?. Economics Letters, 88, 370-375.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50836
O'Leary, N. & O'Leary, N. (2005). The return to a university education in Great Britain. National Institute Economic Review, 193(1), 75
https://doi.org/10.1177/0027950105058559, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2151
Blackaby, D., O'Leary, N., Murphy, P., & O'Leary, N. (2004). Quantile Regression Estimates of the Union Wage Effect for Great Britain. The Manchester School, 72, 497-514.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50839
Chen, H., Li, J., O'Leary, N., & Shao, J. (n.d.) Examining the drivers of the imbalance price: Insights from the balancing mechanism in the United Kingdom. Journal of Environmental Management
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68151

Supervision

Skills, the Industrial Strategy and spreading prosperity throughout the UK (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Jing Shao
Terrorism in Africa: Economic Origins, Spillover, and Economic Resilience (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Understanding Bitcoin: Its role in asset price spillovers, responses to monetary policy and impact on global CO2 emissions (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Rosen Chowdhury
Three Essays on the Electricity Markets in the UK (awarded 2024)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Jinke Li
Knowledge-Based Economy in Developing Countries: Measurements and Impacts (awarded 2024)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Lucy Barros
Essays in International Trade (awarded 2023)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Dario Debowicz

Taught Modules

EC-3062 Advanced Microeconomics

Studying the interactions between economic agents this module provides two critical advances on the theory, introducing asymmetric information and game theoretic perspectives. Throughout research-led theory is linked to contemporary practice, with ample opportunity to explore this further in seminars and the group coursework. An advanced toolkit is provided for analysing complex microeconomic contexts.
MN-D011 Dissertation - Economics (NCH)

The dissertation is intended to enable a student to deepen his or her understanding of a particular area of Economics and economic communication. It gives students the opportunity to choose a topic independently, and work with a supervisor to produce a work of academic research of approximately 15,000 words in length, including a lay summary article of approximately 1,000 words. The dissertation prepares the student for a career in research, policy analysis, or journalism. The student should seek to publish the lay summary in a newspaper, magazine, blog, or other relevant publication. Dissertations can take a variety of forms, from literature reviews to empirical or case study work. Students are encouraged to use their knowledge, experience and ideas from any previous studies outside Economics. However, in order to be acceptable as part of the MA Economic Policy and Communication, the dissertation must be deemed to be written on an economic topic.

Key Grants and Projects

Frontiers of Civic Expansion and Exclusion – (WP1.4) Identity and Civic Divides in the UK 2019 - 2024

Part of an £8m award from the ESRC to the Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research data and Methods, £0.5m

Professor Nigel O'Leary

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About

Areas Of Expertise

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Supervision

Skills, the Industrial Strategy and spreading prosperity throughout the UK (current)

Terrorism in Africa: Economic Origins, Spillover, and Economic Resilience (current)

Understanding Bitcoin: Its role in asset price spillovers, responses to monetary policy and impact on global CO2 emissions (current)

Three Essays on the Electricity Markets in the UK (awarded 2024)

Knowledge-Based Economy in Developing Countries: Measurements and Impacts (awarded 2024)

Essays in International Trade (awarded 2023)

Taught Modules

EC-3062 Advanced Microeconomics

MN-D011 Dissertation - Economics (NCH)

Key Grants and Projects

Frontiers of Civic Expansion and Exclusion – (WP1.4) Identity and Civic Divides in the UK 2019 - 2024