Professor KEITH BENDER

Professor KEITH BENDER The University of Aberdeen Business School SIRE Chair in Economics work +44 (0)1224 273411 pref kabender@abdn.ac.uk pref Edward Wright Building S40

SIRE Chair in Economics

Personal Details Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273411 Email: kabender@abdn.ac.uk Address: Edward Wright Building S40

Research Interests

Labor Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Bender, KA., Neumann, RM. & Skatun, JDF. (2013). 'Real and Perceived Losses from Unemployment: a cross-country study'. Applied Economics, vol 45, no. 25, pp. 3625-3636.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.727977
  [Online] AURA: Losses_from_Unemployment_Applied_Economics.pdf
• Bender, KA. & Roche, K. (in press). 'Educational Mismatch and Self-Employment'. Economics of Education Review, vol 34, pp. 85-95.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.01.010
• Bender, KA., Green, CP. & Heywood, JS. (2012). 'Piece rates and workplace injury: Does survey evidence support Adam Smith?'. Journal of Population Economics, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 569-590.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s00148-011-0393-5
  [Online] AURA: JPopEconFinalcorrected.pdf
• Bender, KA. (2012). 'An analysis of well-being in retirement: The role of pensions, health, and 'voluntariness' of retirement'. Journal of Socio-Economics, vol 41, no. 4, pp. 424-433.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2011.05.010
  [Online] AURA: Retiree_Well_Being_Final_Draft.pdf
• Bender, KA. & Mridha, H. (2011). 'The effect of local area unemployment on compensating wage differentials for injury risk'. Southern Economic Journal, vol 78, no. 2, pp. 287-307.
  [Online] AURA: Unemployment_and_CWD_SEJ.pdf
• Bender, KA. & Heywood, JS. (2011). 'Educational mismatch and the careers of scientists'. Education Economics, vol 19, no. 3, pp. 253-274.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2011.577555
  [Online] AURA: Mismatch_and_Careers_Education_Economics_Final_Version.pdf
• Bender, KA. & Skatun, JD. (2009). 'Constrained by hours and restricted in wages: The quality of matches in the labour market'. Economic Inquiry, vol 47, no. 3, pp. 512-529.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00159.x
• Bender, KA. & Theodossiou, I. (2009). 'Controlling for Endogeneity in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship of the Near Retired'. Journal of Socio-Economics, vol 38, no. 6, pp. 977-987.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.07.009
  [Online] AURA: Health_SES_Final_Draft.pdf
• Bender, KA. (2009). 'How are pension integration and pension benefits related?'. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, vol 49, no. 1, pp. 26-41.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2008.10.003
  [Online] AURA: Pension_Integration_QREF_Final_Draft.pdf
• Bender, KA. & Habermalz, S. (2008). 'Are there differences in the health-socio-economic status relationship over the life cycle?: Evidence from Germany'. Labour, vol 22, no. 1, pp. 107-125.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00400.x
• Bender, KA. (2007). 'Replacing income in retirement for the newly retired: A distributional analysis of gross and net replacement rates'. Journal of Income Distribution, vol 16, no. 2, pp. 83-105.
• Bender, KA., Neumann, RM. & Skatun, JDF. (2006). 'Unemployment and Other Measures of Labor Market Inefficiency: A Comparison of UK and US Labor Markets 1931-1996'. Economic Inquiry, vol 44, no. 4, pp. 629-643.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/ei/cbj039
• Bender, KA. & Heywood, JS. (2006). 'Job satisfaction of the highly educated: The role of gender, academic tenure, and earnings'. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol 53, no. 2, pp. 253-279.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2006.00379.x
• Bender, KA., Mridha, HA. & Peoples, J. (2006). 'Risk compensation for hospital workers: Evidence from relative wages of janitors'. Industrial & labor relations review, vol 59, no. 2, pp. 226-242.
• Bender, KA., Donohue, SM. & Heywood, JS. (2005). 'Job satisfaction and gender segregation'. Oxford Economic Papers, vol 57, no. 3, pp. 479-496.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpi015
• Bender, KA. (2003). 'Examining equality between public- and private-sector wage distributions'. Economic Inquiry, vol 41, no. 1, pp. 62-79.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/ei/41.1.62

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Bender, KA. & Heywood, J. (2012). 'Trends in the Relative Compensation of State and Local Government Employees'. D Mitchell (ed.), in: Public Jobs and Political Agendas: The Public Sector in an Era of Economic Stress. Labor and Employment Relations Association, pp. 133-66.
• Bender, KA. & Heywood, J. (2009). 'Educational Mismatch among PhDs: Determinants and Consequences'. R Freeman & D Goroff (eds), in: Science and Engineering Careers in the United States: An analysis of markets and employment. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, pp. 229-255.

Conference Proceedings

• Hill, RC., Adkins, LC. & Bender, KA. (2003). 'Test statistics and critical values in selectivity models'. TB Fomby & RC Hill (eds), in: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models: Twenty years later. vol. 17, JAI-ELSEVIER SCI BV, Amsterdam, pp. 75-105.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0731-9053(03)17004-1

Books and Reports

Commissioned Reports

• Bender, KA. & Heywood, JS. (2010). 'Out of Balance? Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years'. National Insitute on Retirement Security.

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