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
My research on Performance-Related Pay (PRP) has received significant attention in the press, such as the BBC Business Scotland radio programme (click here) and the Scotsman (click here). It has also been cited in the high-profiled Hutton Review of fair pay in the public sector (HM Treasury). You can view further media citings on my work on job satisfaction (e.g. Times, Sun, Daily Mail, Herald etc.) by clicking here, here, here and here. Finally, the distinguished Professor R. Freeman (Harvard & LSE) 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, K., Roberts, D., Balamou, E. and Psaltopoulos, D. (2012), “Modelling the effects of labour migration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution: A CGE analysis of three EU regions”, Regional Studies, forthcoming.
· Pouliakas, K. and Livanos, I. (2012), “The Gender Wage Gap and Educational Choices in Greece”, Journal of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
· Pouliakas, K. and Theodossiou, I. (2011), “The Economics of Health and Safety at Work: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Theory and Policy”, Journal of Economic Surveys, forthcoming.
· Pouliakas, K. (2010), “Pay enough, don’t pay too much or don’t pay at all? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction”, Kyklos, forthcoming.
· 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 Job Satisfaction of High-Paid and Low-Paid Workers 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 and in Progress
- Pouliakas, K. (2009), “Rewarding Carrots and Crippling Sticks: Uncovering the Preferred Incentive Mechanisms of Employees in Europe”.
- 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.
- Pouliakas, K. and Theodoropoulos, N. (2010), "The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism", ", IZA DP No. 5954.
- Pouliakas, K., Russo, G. and van Loo, J. (2012), "Skills obsolescence and workplace conditions: Evidence from the Cedefop survey".
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)
The Society of Labour Economists (SOLE); National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR); IZA Summer Symposium on Labour Economics; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Athens University of Economics and Business; Aristotelion University; Bank of Greece; University of Patras; University of Cyprus; University of Aberdeen; European Society of Population Economics; 2nd International Conference on Education Economics; Scottish Economic Society (Perth); 2nd LSE PhD Symposium; Low Wage Network (LoWER); Applied Econometrics Association (Mons)
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