Professor Simon Burgess
Professor of Economics
Director, Centre for Market and Public Organisation
Contact Details
Tele: +44 (0)117 33 10764Email: Simon.Burgess@bristol.ac.uk
Office Hours: Tues 12.00 & Thurs 12.00
Room: 1.1, 2 Priory Road
Personal Web Page
CMPO bio
Teaching Units
ECON30075: Labour EconomicsResearch Interests
Simon Burgess's main research interests are in the fields of labour economics and poverty. He is currently working on: an economic model of poverty dynamics, empirical models of incentives in organisations, the role of markets in education and health, unemployment and gross job and worker flows. He is also working on spatial issues in labour markets.Recent Publications
For a full list of Simon Burgess's recent publications please go to his CMPO web page.
- 'Local Neighbourhood and Mental Health: Evidence from the UK' (with C Propper, R Sarker, A Bolster, K Jones and R Johnston) Social Sciences and Medicine, (forthcoming)
- 'Parallel Lives? Ethnic Segregation in Schools and Neighbourhoods' (with D Wilson and R Lupton) Urban Studies, (forthcoming)
- 'Ethnic Segregation in England's Schools' (with Deborah Wilson) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , no 30, 20-36, (2005)
- 'Unemployment Dynamics in Britain' (with Helene Turon) Economic Journal, vol 115, pp 423-448, (April 2005)
Working Papers
- Keeping Up With The Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context (with Gundi Knies and Carol Propper), CMPO Working Paper 07/173
- The Formation of School Peer Groups: Pupils' Transition from Primary to Secondary School in England (with Ron Johnston, Tomas Key, Carol Propper and Deborah Wilson), CMPO Working Paper 07/172
- The Impact of Neighbourhood on the Income and Mental Health of British Social Renters (with Carol Propper, Anne Bolster, George Leckie, Kelvyn Jones and Ron Johnston), CMPO Working Paper 06/161
- School Choice in England: Background Facts (with Adam Briggs, Brendon McConnell and Helen Slater), CMPO working Paper 06/159
Related Links
Microeconomic Research at BristolCentre for Market and Public Organisation
Centre for Economic Performance
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion