Yu Zhu joined the University of Dundee as Chair Professor of Economics in September 2014. After completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics at the University of Oslo, he became a Research Economist at Statistics Norway prior to moving to the UK in 1994. He undertook a PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge which was awarded in 1998. Before coming to Dundee, he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Labour Economics at the University of Kent. Prior to that, Yu Zhu has also been a Research Officer at Keele University and a Research Fellow at Warwick University.
His main research interests include the economics of education, labour economics broadly defined, and applied microeconometrics. He has been a Research Associate of the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) at the London School of Economics. He also has consulting experience with Futureskills Scotland, Department for Education (DfE), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Royal Society. He was an elected council member of the Scottish Economic Society (SES) and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at UNSW Canberra, Australia. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Yu Zhu joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2018.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11735
Fengyan Dai, Fang Cai, Yu Zhu
short version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 29 (6), 489 - 494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10536
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 230-249
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8692
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017): 154-170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8674
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (4), 911-937
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7841
published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7019
revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 38-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5254
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1177-1186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5018
published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (316), 658–679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2942
published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (21), 2767 - 2776
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1627
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 695-709
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