MY RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
Research Interests: Labour market and Personnel Economics, Industrial
Relations, Economics of Well-being, Regional Economics
Research
Conferences
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RESEARCH
The research that I have done as part of my PhD and the EPICURUS project has received significant attention in the press. You can view the citings by clicking here, here, here and here. Finally, Professor R. Freeman (Harvard) has cited my PhD research in his talk "Your job: Love it or hate it? The economics of job satisfaction".
All of my research papers (published and working papers) are available for download here.
1. Papers Published in Refereed Journals
· Pouliakas, I. and Livanos, I. (2010), "Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece: Are Greek Higher Education Degrees Trojan Horses?, Education Economics, forthcoming.
· Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2010), “Socio-economic Differences in the Satisfaction of High-Pay and Low-Pay Jobs in Europe”, International Labour Review (ILO), forthcoming.
· Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2009), “Measuring the utility cost of temporary employment contracts using a conjoint analysis approach”, Economica, forthcoming.
· Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2009), “Confronting objections to performance pay: The impact of individual and gain-sharing incentives on job satisfaction”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 56, No.5, pp. 662-684.
· McCausland, W.D., Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2005), "Some are Punished and Some are Rewarded: A Study of the Impact of Performance Pay on Job Satisfaction", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 26, Issue 7/8, pp. 636-659.
· Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2005), "Socio-Economic Differences in the Perceived Quality of High and Low-paid Jobs in Greece", Bank of Greece Economic Bulletin, Vol. 24, January, p. 91-132 (in Greek) and p. 83-116 (in English).
2. Papers Submitted to Refereed Journals
- Pouliakas, K. and Theodoropoulos, N. (2010), "Performance Pay and Firm Performance: Effect of Financial Incentives on Worker Absence and Productivity".
- Pouliakas, K. (2009), “Rewarding Carrots and Crippling Sticks: Uncovering the Preferred Effort and Incentive Mechanisms of Employees in Europe”.
- Pouliakas, K., Roberts, D., Balamou, E. and Psaltopoulos, D. (2008), “Modelling the effects of labour migration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution: A CGE analysis of three EU regions”.
- Pouliakas, K. and Livanos, I. (2009), "The Gender Wage Gap as a function of Educational Degree Choices in Greece".
- Panos, G., Pouliakas, K. and Zangelidis, A. (2009), "The Inter-related Dynamics of Multiple-Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice", IZA DP No. 4437.
3. Papers in Progress
- Pouliakas, K. (2009), "Skills obsolescence and skills replenishment in an ageing and sick Europe: Evidence from the European LFS".
- Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2009), "An overview of the current state of knowledge on occupational health and safety".
- Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2009), "Unemployment duration and attitudes to unemployment: Evidence of adaptation effects using a conjoint analysis approach.
- Pouliakas (2008), "Pay enough, don't pay too much or don't pay at all? Analysis of the non-monotonic impact of incentives on job satisfaction".
4. Reports & Book Chapters
- (Co-)author of nine (9) reports submitted to the EU Commission as researcher of the EPICURUS, SOCIOOLD, TERA and HEALTHatWORK EU projects.
- Chapter 6 ("The Simple Regression model and Ordinarly Least Squares") and Chapter 7 ("Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing") of the new 'Quantitative Methods for Economics" interactive textbook of the LiveEcon series, forthcoming.
5. Dissertations
- PhD Thesis: Socioeconomic Effects on Employee Well-being: Preference Identification in response to Non-standard Labour Market Conditions, University of Aberdeen Business School, June 2007.
- MPhil Thesis: Modeling Human Capital in the Face of Uncertainty: Sub-optimal Educational Choices and Implications for Development, University of Oxford, May 2003.
- Spatial Wage Differences in the UK: Theory and Evidence, report written during my internship at HM Treasury, London, September 2001.
- Undergraduate dissertation: The Returns to Education and Earnings Inequality: A Cross-Country Comparison, University of Aberdeen, January 2001.
CONFERENCES
Presentations (indicative list)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Athens University of Economics and Business; Bank of Greece; University of Patras; University of Cyprus; University of Aberdeen; European Society of Population Economics (Seville); 2nd International Conference on Education Economics (Athens); Scottish Economic Society (Perth); 2nd LSE PhD Symposium (London); Low Wage Network (LoWER); Applied Econometrics Association (Mons)
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