Robert A. Hart

Research Fellow

University of Stirling

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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. 16407
Women Workers in Essential British Metal and Chemical Industries during the Second World War and the Immediate Post-war Years
Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13528
Labour Productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture
Robert A. Hart
revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (2), 431 - 452
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12651
The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain
David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart
revised version published as 'The Decline of Paid Overtime in Britain' in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 2, 235-258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12379
Labor Productivity during the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10949
Date of Birth and Selective Schooling
Robert A. Hart, Mirko Moro
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
Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?
Robert A. Hart, Mirko Moro, J. Elizabeth Roberts
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7560
Overtime Working and Contract Efficiency
Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7384
Job Spells, Employer Spells, and Wage Returns to Tenure
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5912
Job Re-grading, Real Wages, and the Cycle
Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5563
Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years
Julien Grenet, Robert A. Hart, J. Elizabeth Roberts
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4977
Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
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. 4720
Retire Later or Work Harder?
David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4248
Workers Made Idle by Company Strikes and the 'British Disease'
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4118
Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription during WWII and the Post-War Years
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4006
Did British Women Achieve Long-Term Economic Benefits from Working in Essential WWII Industries?
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3797
Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 170-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3614
A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49 (s1), s70–s92,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3305
Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1345-1364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2364
Real Wage Cyclicality of Female Stayers and Movers in Part-Time and Full-Time Jobs
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2210
Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay over the Cycle
Robert A. Hart
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1006-1022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1651
Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 105-119
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1593
Piecework versus Timework in British Wartime Engineering
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1497
The Spot Market Matters: Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain
Paul J. Devereux, Robert A. Hart
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
Worker-Job Matches, Job Mobility, and Real Wage Cyclicality
Robert A. Hart
published in: Economica, 2006, 73 (290), 287-298
IZA Discussion Paper No. 799
General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
Robert A. Hart
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 766
How Important Is Guaranteed or Institutionalised Overtime?
David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 543
Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression
Julia Darby, Robert A. Hart
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 91-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 325
Real Wages and the Cycle: The View from the Frequency Domain
Robert A. Hart, James R. Malley, Ulrich Woitek
published as 'Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence' in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 51-71
IZA Discussion Paper No. 163
Why Do Firms Pay an Overtime Premium?
Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 139
Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle
Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 446-464, (Special Issue: Labormetrics)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 133
Paid and Unpaid Overtime Working in Germany and the UK
David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart, Olaf Hübler, Wolfgang Schwerdt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 132
Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938
Robert A. Hart
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38 (4), 478-502
IZA Discussion Paper No. 47
Tenure-based Wage Setting
Robert A. Hart, Felix Ritchie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 45
On the Cyclicality and Stability of Real Earnings
Robert A. Hart, James R. Malley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 44
Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market
David N.F. Bell, Robert A. Hart
published as "Wages, hours, and overtime premia: evidence from the British labor market" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 56 (3), 470-480
IZA World of Labor Article
Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks
Robert A. Hart
IZA World of Labor Article
The rise and fall of piecework
Robert A. Hart
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