Bob Hart has been Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling since 1986. Degrees: BA (Hons.) Economics and MA Economics, University of Liverpool. Previous posts: Lecturer in Economics and Statistics, University of Aberdeen (1969-72); Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds (1973-74); Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Strathclyde (1976-79), Visiting Associate Professor, McMaster University (1979/80), Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Management in Berlin (1980-86).

He researches in labour market economics, with special interests in labour costs, working time, human capital, business cycle fluctuations in the labour market, the British engineering labour market between 1920 and 1970, and the economics of education.

Among other journals, he has published in the European Economic Review, Economica, Review of Economic Studies, the Economic Journal, Journal of Regional Science, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A and C), European Journal of Political Economy. He has published five monographs in labour market economics, the latest being Work and Pay in Japan (with Seiichi Kawasaki), Cambridge University Press, June, 1999. The fifth book was published by Cambridge University Press in August, 2004 - The Economics of Overtime Working.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13528
Revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Published: 01 August 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12651
revised version published as 'The Decline of Paid Overtime in Britain' in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 2, 235-258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10949
published as 'Date of birth and selective schooling: Some lessons from the 1944 education reforms in England and Wales' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 67 (5), 523 - 538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9827
Robert A. Hart, Mirko Moro, J. Elizabeth Roberts
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7384
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5912
Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5563
Julien Grenet, Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4977
Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
published as 'Real wage cyclicality in the Great Depression: evidence from British engineering and metal working firms' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 197-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3797
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 170-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3614
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49 (s1), s70–s92,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3305
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1345-1364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2210
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1006-1022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1651
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 105-119
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1497
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (5), 661-683 (Special Issue on Labour Contracts and Wages over the Cycle)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 881
published in: Economica, 2006, 73 (290), 287-298
IZA Discussion Paper No. 799
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 543
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 91-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 325
published as 'Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence' in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 51-71
IZA Discussion Paper No. 139
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 446-464, (Special Issue: Labormetrics)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 132
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38 (4), 478-502
IZA Discussion Paper No. 47
Robert A. Hart, Felix Ritchie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 44
published as "Wages, hours, and overtime premia: evidence from the British labor market" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 56 (3), 470-480
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