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Professor Tim Barmby The University of Aberdeen Business School Jaffrey Chair of Political Economy work +44 (0)1224 272158 pref tim.barmby@abdn.ac.uk

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Publications

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Working Papers

• Barmby, T., Ma, A. & Eberth, B. (in press). 'Incentives, Learning, Task Difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierarchy'.
• Barmby, T. & dolton, P. (2009). 'What Lies Beneath ?: Effort and Incentives on Archaeological digs in the 1930's'. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Discussion Papers

• Barmby, T. & Dolton, P. (2006). 'The Riddle of the Sands?: Incentives and Labour Contracts on Archaeological digs in Northern Syria in the 1930s'. University of Aberdeen Business School Working Paper Series, no. 01, vol. 2006, University of Aberdeen Business School.
• Barmby, T. & Larguem, M. (2004). 'Worker Absenteeism: A Study of Contagion effects'. University of Aberdeen Business School Working Paper Series, no. 01, vol. 2004, Centre for European Labour Market Research.

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Barmby, T., Eberth, B. & Ma, AHY. (2012). 'Incentives, Learning, Task Difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierarchy'. Labour Economics, vol 19, no. 1, pp. 76-81.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.08.001
• Barmby, T. & Larguem, M. (2009). 'Coughs and Sneezes spread diseases: A study of infectious illness and absence'. Journal of Health Economics, vol 28, no. 5, pp. 1012-1017.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.06.006
• Barmby, T. & Eberth, B. (2008). 'Worker turnover and job matching : Implications for estimating the returns to tenure'. Economics Letters, vol 101, no. 2, pp. 137-139.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.07.001
• Parker, S., Barmby, T. & Belghitar, Y. (2005). 'Wage Uncertainty and the Labour Supply of Self Employed Workers'. Economic Journal, vol 115, no. 502, pp. C190-C207.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-0133.2005.00987.x
• Barmby, T., Ercolani, M. & Treble, J. (2004). 'Sickness Absence In the UK: 1984-2002'. Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol 11, no. 1, pp. 65-88.
• Audas, R., Barmby, T. & Treble, J. (2004). 'Luck, Effort and Reward in an Organisational Hierarchy'. Journal Of Labor Economics, vol 22, no. 2, pp. 379-396.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1086/381254
• Barmby, T. & Bridges, S. (2003). 'An Anaylsis of the Theory of Biased Contests in an Organisational Setting'. International Journal of Manpower, vol 24, no. 7, pp. 836-843.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1108/01437720310502159
• Barmby, T., Ercolani, M. & Treble, J. (2002). 'Sickness Absence: An International Comparison'. Economic Journal, vol 112, no. 480, pp. 315-331.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00046
• Barmby, T. (2002). 'Worker absenteeism: a discrete hazard model with bivariate heterogeneity'. Labour Economics, vol 9, no. 4, pp. 469-476.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(02)00042-8
• Barmby, T., Winkelmann, R. & Nolan, M. (2001). 'Contractual Workdays and Absence'. The Manchester School, vol 69, no. 3, pp. 75-269.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/1467-9957.00247
• Barmby, T., Bridges, S., Van Gameren, E. & Treble, J. (2001). 'The Internal Economics Of The Firm: Further Evidence from Personnel Data'. Labour Economics, vol 8, no. 5, pp. 531-552.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00045-8
• Barmby, T. & Smith, N. (2001). 'Household Labour Supply in Britain and Denmark: Some Interpretations Using a Model of Pareto Optimal Behaviour'. Applied Economics, vol 33, no. 9, pp. 1109-1116.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/00036840010005238

Books and Reports

Books

• Barmby, T. & Treble, J. (2011). 'Worker Absenteeism and Sick Pay'. Cambridge University Press.

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