
Professor Keith Bender
SIRE Chair in Economics
- About
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Biography
I specialise in applied microeconomics, particularly interested in labour economics. Early in my career I focused on the role of institutions and labour market outcomes, looking at differences between union and nonunion workers, public and private sector workers, and the subjective wellbeing of retirees and retirement behaviour. More recently I have been looking at the interactions of health and labour economics, particularly the effect of different kinds of labour contracts on stress and the health of workers. In addition, I have been interested in the educational and skills mismatch in the labour market, examining its incidence, causes and effects.
I am an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations and a Research Fellow of the IZA.
In addition to working at the Unversity of Aberdeen, I have held previous positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the US Social Security Administration, as well as visiting positions at Louisiana State University, University of Potsdam, Giessen University and the National Institute for Labour Studies at Flinders University in Australia.
Qualifications
- PhD Economics1994 - Duke University
- MA Economics1992 - Duke University
- BA Economics1990 - Furman University
Internal Memberships
Director of Research - Business School
Member of the Centre for European Labour Market Research (CELMR) and the Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory (SEEL).
- Research
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Research Overview
Labour Economics, Economics of Ageing, Subjective Well-being, Health Economics
Member of the Centre for European Labour Market Research (CELMR) and the Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory (SEEL).
Research Areas
Economics
Research Specialisms
- Applied Economics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
My current research projects investigate:
- Employment contracts and wellbeing
- Educational mismatch
- Labour supply elasticities near retirement
- Union and nonunion forms of worker voice
- Skills shortages from the firm's point of view
- Labour market (earnings) discrimination
Past Research
Determinants of trade unionism
Public-private wage determination and differentials
Supervision
I generally supervise PhD topics in various aspects of applied labour economics.
Supervisees
- MS NAZMUN BAKTH
- MISS KWAN PHETSAWANG
- MR IBZAN DARIUS
- MISS BEI CHEN
- MR SAAD ALOBAID
- MRS ADEBOLA AKINSANPE
Funding and Grants
- 'Performance-Related Pay and Health: An Interdisciplinary Study', ESRC (please see the following website for more information: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/business/research/PRPH.php)
- 'Performance Pay and Stress: A Pilot Study', Scottish Economic Society
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
For the 2021-22 first teaching session, I will be coordinating EC1006 (Economics of Business and Society) and BU501S: Employment Relations (part of the new MSc in International Human Resource Management). In the second teaching session, I will be coordinating the Economics Dissertation (EC4526) and teaching Employment Relations to the Qatar version of the MSc in International Human Resource Management as well as coordinating the Economics of Labour Markets module as part of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics.
- Publications
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Performance-Related Pay: The Expected and the Unexpected
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Zimmermann, K. (ed.), 28 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_316-1
Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection
Working Papers and Discussion Papers: Discussion Papers- [ONLINE] https://docs.iza.org/dp15000.pdf
The Political Economy of Skilled Workers and Innovation
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Zimmermann, K. F. (ed.). Springer, pp. 1-33, 33 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6
Athena SWAN Gender Equality Plans and the Gendered Impact of COVID-19
Gender, Work and OrganizationContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12784
How does the type of payment you receive impact your health?
FuturumContributions to Journals: ArticlesPerformance pay and assortative matching
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 485-493Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12232
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15169/1/PRP_and_Matching_Accepted_version.pdf
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Employment Contracts and Stress: Experimental Evidence
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 187, pp. 360-373Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.04.015
Employment contracts and stress: An experimental study
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 28, no. Sippl1, pp. S76-S76Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-09997-7
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525 Years in the Pursuit of Truth Podcast: Economics at Aberdeen: The Legacy of Sir Thomas Jaffrey, Bt (1861-1953)
Non-textual Forms: Digital or Visual ProductsStress and the Post-Covid Economy
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites