Professor Kerry Papps

Professor of Economics

Expertise: Economic trends, inflation, minimum wage, public policy as it relates to economics

Kerry Papps is a labour economist who researches the effects of the minimum wage and other public policy questions. He also has an interest in what labour economists can learn from professional and amateur sports. He joined the Department of Economics at the University of Bath in 2011 and became a senior lecturer there in 2013. He has directed Bath’s Master of Research programme in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2018.

Kerry undertook his undergraduate education in New Zealand and worked for the New Zealand Department of Labour before completing a PhD at Cornell University, where he held a Fulbright Scholarship. From 2007-2010 he was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and in 2011 was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University. In 2017-2018, he was based at Motu Research in New Zealand.

Kerry is a research fellow of the IZA, Bonn and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has been commissioned to provide research for the World Bank and the UK Low Pay Commission.

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