Professor Steve Bradley
MA, PhD Lancaster
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Department
Vice Chancellor's Office
Professional Role
Associate Dean for Postgraduate Teaching and Director of the Graduate School
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: Introduction to Economics - special module on Business Economics. Applied Economics. Urban and Regional Economics.
Postgraduate: Economics of Human Resources
Research Interests
Education Economics: Economics of secondary schooling, including the investigation of the effects of quasi-market forces in secondary education, and the educational gender gap. Econometric analysis of pupil attainment, truancy and part-time work; ethnic differences in educational attainment. Labour Economics: The analysis of the youth labour market, including the school-to-work transition, the evaluation of training programmes and the history of youth training provision in the UK. The empirical analysis of matching models. Economics of unemployment: Micro-econometric analysis of labour market transitions.
Current Research
Job search, employer search and matching in the labour market', Leverhulme project, with Dr M J Andrews and R Upward, Manchester University. 'The educational gender gap, catch up and labour market performance', Nuffield Foundation project, with Dr M J Andrews, J. Taylor and D. Stott.
Profile
Steve Bradley is a Professor of Economics. He was educated at Leeds Metropolitan University and holds a doctorate from Lancaster University. Prior to his entry to academia, Steve spent ten years working in Local Government as a member of the Education Department of Lancashire County Council.
His research interests fall into two areas – Education Economics and Labour Economics. He has published widely on issues related to the operation and impact of introducing a quasi-market in the secondary education sector, and the econometric analysis of educational policy. Published work in the field of Labour Economics includes the employer selection and recruitment, the effect of employment protection on effort and the econometric evaluation of youth training programmes.
Recently, he has, in conjunction with colleagues in the Department, completed a Nuffield Foundation-funded project evaluating the impact of the specialist schools policy on educational and labour market outcomes. Professor Bradley's current research interests focus on gender wage gaps in the public sector, the effect of teaching quality on educational attainment of secondary school pupils and the analysis of transition behaviour in the adult labour market.
In his role as Associate Dean (Postgraduate) Professor Bradley has been at the forefront of developing the School’s international portfolio, as well as teaching on a variety of undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes.
Publications
- Bradley S, Green Colin and Leeves Gareth, forthcoming, 'Employment protection, threat and incentive effects on worker effort.', EPRINTS-JOURNAL
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View PDF - Bradley S and Taylor Jim, 2012, 'Diversity, choice and the quasi-market: An empirical analysis of secondary education policy in England', Economics Working Paper Series
View details | View PDF - Johnes Jill, Bradley S and Little Allan, 2012, 'Efficiency in the further education sector in England', Open Journal of Statistics, vol 2
View details - Bradley S, Green Colin and Mangan John, 2012, 'The Effect of Relative Wages and External Shocks on Quits and Separations from the Public Sector.', Economic Record
View details - Bradley S and Migali G, 2011, 'An Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Policies in a Multi-Level Framework: The Case of Secondary Education Policies in the UK',
View details | View PDF - Bradley S, Green Colin and Mangan J, 2011, 'Gender wage gaps within a public sector:
Evidence from personnel data', Economics Working Paper Series
View details | View PDF - Bradley S, Migali G and Taylor Jim, 2011, 'Funding, school specialisation and test scores: An evaluation of the specialist schools policy using matching models', Economics Working Paper Series
View details | View PDF - Johnes Jill, Bradley S and Little A, 2010, 'The measurement and determinants of efficiency and productivity in the further education sector in England', Bulletin of Economic Research, vol 62, no. 1, pp. 1-30.
View details - Taylor Jim, Bradley S and Migali G, 2009, 'The distributional impact of increased school resources:
the Specialist Schools Initiative and the Excellence in Cities Programme', Economics Working Paper Series
View details | View PDF - Bradley S, Migali G and Taylor Jim, 2009, 'An evaluation of the impact of funding and
school specialisation on student performance
using matching models', Economics Working Paper Series
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