Donal O'Neill

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National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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Donal O’Neill is a Professor of Economics at NUI Maynooth. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Iowa in 1993. He has published articles examining the impact of labour market reform on unemployment, the determinants of inequality across countries, the gender and racial wage gap and the modelling and measurement of intergenerational mobility. His research has been published in the the American Statistician, the European Journal of Health Economics, Economica, Economic Journal, Economics of Education Review, Economics and Human Biology, IZA journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He has also been involved in numerous research projects for government departments in Ireland and served as the labour market expert on the inaugural Low Pay Commission of Ireland from 2015-2018.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12459
Good Schools or Good Students? The Importance of Selectivity for School Rankings
Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10727
Does Reducing Unemployment Benefits During a Recession Reduce Youth Unemployment? Evidence from a 50% Cut in Unemployment Assistance
Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9580
The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust
Niamh Holton, Donal O'Neill
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (1):1-26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8601
Divided Opinion on The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013: Random or Systematic Differences
Donal O'Neill
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 175-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7893
Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard
Donal O'Neill
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 17, 116-128.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7787
Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market
Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
published in: [IZA Journal of European Labor Studies], 2015, 4(18)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7288
Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error
Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
published as 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' in; Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, 857-871
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7008
The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes
Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6917
Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement
Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 104-119
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6877
An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
Denis Conniffe, Donal O'Neill
published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102
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