Research Interests
Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Previously he has been visiting Professor at Harvard University (1993/4) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001/2). He was an independent member of the Low Pay Commission in the UK and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been President of the European Association of Labor Economists (2009-11) and is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2002.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18353
Gerald Foong, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18124
Swati Dhingra, Fjolla Kondirolli, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17633
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17483
published online in: Annual Review of Economics, 4 April 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17423
published in: Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, 2024, 5, 679-759
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16071
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14000
revised version published as 'Labour Market Shocks and Parental Investments during the Covid-19 Pandemic' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102341
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13837
forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13456
Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keun Bok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, Outi Sirniö
published as 'Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe' in: American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 1 - 30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12380
published as 'New Dawn Fades: Trade, Labour and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024,152, 103993
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12352
published as 'International Terror Attacks and Local Out-Group Hate Crimes' in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (3), 589–610
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12060
Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski, Stephen Machin
published as 'The Decline in Rent Sharing' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42, 683-716
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11805
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (3), 732-65
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11490
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 1040-77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11478
published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 125-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11476
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11474
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9955
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10, 217-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9914
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36, 159-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9276
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17, 1107-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9109
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8332
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100, 392-404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7600
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 121-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6582
revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13(4), 366-384.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6581
published in: Fiscal Studies, 2012, 33 (2), 265 - 286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6205
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 118–141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5981
published as 'The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium' in: Economica, 2016, 83, 281-306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5018
published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (316), 658–679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5000
revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (552), 463-484.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4996
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, 1278-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4719
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3866
published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3845
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 10 (2), 417-50.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3410
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2157-2181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2653
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (4), 365-393
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2234
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (522), 1145-1167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2214
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (4), 912-947
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1913
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (1), 121-159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1853
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 678 - 701
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1005
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1441-1462
IZA Discussion Paper No. 553
published in: Economics Letters; 2003, 79 (3), 393-400
IZA Research Report No. 105
Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Ulf Rinne, René Böheim, Thomas Leoni, Steven Tobin, Arthur Sweetman, Pierre Cahuc, Tommaso Colussi, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Paul Verstraten, Priscila Ferreira, João Cerejeira, Miguel Portela, Raul Ramos, Martin Kahanec, Monika Martiskova, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans, Patrick Arni, Rui Costa, Stephen Machin, Susan N. Houseman
Country reports for Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States (174 Seiten)
IZA Research Report No. 98
Werner Eichhorst, Ulf Rinne, Paul Marx, René Böheim, Thomas Leoni, Pierre Cahuc, Tommaso Colussi, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Paul Verstraten, Priscila Ferreira, João Cerejeira, Miguel Portela, Raul Ramos, Martin Kahanec, Monika Martiskova, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans, Patrick Arni, Rui Costa, Stephen Machin, Susan N. Houseman
Country reports for Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States (153 Seiten)
