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Dr Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan
Subject: 
Economics
Research: 

The political economy of vocational education and apprenticeship training. Imperfect competition and price formation in training markets. Discontent and collective action in long-duration work-based training: apprenticeship and doctoral teaching assistants. Collective bargaining, pay structure and training in post-war metalworking in Britain and Germany.

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Current research projects

Trainee discontent and collective action in work-based learning:apprentices and doctoral students, Leverhulme Trust, 2011-13.

Recent publications and papers

2013 ‘Monopsony power, pay structure and training’ (with S. Muehlemann and S. C. Wolter), forthcoming, Industrial and Labour Relations Review.
2013 ‘Apprentice pay in Britain, Germany, and Switzerland: institutions, market forces and market power’ (with U. Backes-Gellner, S. Teuber and K. Wagner), forthcoming, European Journal of Industrial Relations.
2012 ‘Improving the transition between education/training and the labour market: what works in different national contexts?’ (with M. Piopunik), Analytical Report to European Commission, European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EEnEE), IFO, University of Munich (http://www.eenee.de/portal/page/portal/EENEEView/_generische_page_eenee?...).
2011 'Apprenticeship: between theory and practice, school and workplace', Working Paper no. 64, Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education, University of Zurich (http://ideas.repec.org/p/iso/educat/0064.html); pp. 403-32 of M. Pilz (ed.), The Future of VET in a Changing World (Wiesbaden: Springer VS).
2011 Financial Attributes of Apprenticeship Training in Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland, (with K. Wagner, S. Teuber and U. Backes-Gellner), Hans Böckler Stiftung, Dusseldorf.
2010 Corporate ownership and initial training in Britain, Germany and Switzerland (with K. Wagner, S. Teuber and U. Backes-Gellner), Research Paper 99, SKOPE (Oxford: www.skope.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/RP99 final.pdf).
2010 ‘Apprenticeship’ (with S. C. Wolter), pp. 521-76 in R. Hanushek, S. Machin and L. Wössmann (eds), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland.
2010 'Training markets', pp. 496-502 in P. Peterson, E. Baker, and B. McGaw (eds), International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 8, Oxford: Elsevier.
2010 'Apprentice strikes, pay structure, and training in twentieth century UK metalworking industry', pp. 317-53 in C. Brown, B. Eichengreen, and M. Reich (eds), Labour in the Era of Globalization, Cambridge: CUP.
2009 'The role of external inspection in the public services: the case of the UK training market' (with P. Lewis), Public Administration, 87(4), 791-817.
2009 'Does external inspection under-rate Apprenticeship training by employers? Evidence from England', (with P. Lewis), Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 1(1), 39-63.
2009 'Youth outcomes in the labour markets of advanced economies: decline, deterioration and causes' (with R. Christopoulou), pp. 67-94, in I. Schoon and R. Silberstein (eds), Transitions from School to Work: Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity, CUP.
2007 'Large employers and apprenticeship training in Britain' (with H. Gospel and P. Lewis), British Journal of Industrial Relations, March; 45(1), 127-53.