Education:

MSc (Econ) in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management (awarded with distinction), London School of Economics, 1999

BA in Economics and Human Resource Management, Keele University, 1998

Career:

Senior Research Officer, NIESR, 2005-present

Research Officer, NIESR, 1999-2005

Research Interests:

Labour market policy evaluation, Industrial/ employment relations, the UK labour market, and the UK economy.

Works with John Forth, Lucy Stokes and Helen Bewley on the ESRC funded 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004) Information and Advice Service, which aims to foster increased use of the survey data by teachers, researchers and practitioners. Follow this link to the WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service Homepage: WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service web-site.

Worked with John Forth on the ESRC funded 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) Data Dissemination Service. Follow this link to the Data Dissemination Homepage: WERS98 Data Dissemination Service web-site.

Other Information:

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Selected Publications:

Kirby, S., Riley, R., (2008) 'The external returns to education: UK evidence using repeated cross-sections', Labour Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 619-630

Kirby, S. and Riley, R. (2007) ‘ICT and the returns to schooling and job-specific experience’, National Institute Economic Review, No. 201, pp. 76-85.

Riley, R., Kirby, S., Meadows, P., van de Ven, J. and Barrell, R. (2007) ‘Evaluation of the macroeconomic impact of Jobcentre Plus and Jobseeker’s Allowance New Deals: a feasibility study’. DWP Research Report No. 433, CDS: Leeds.

Barrell, R., Kirby, S and Riley, R. (2006) ‘Pensions, Saving and the UK Economy’, Report for the Pensions Commission.

Kirby, S. and Mitchell, J. (2006) ‘Prudence and UK Trend Growth’, National Institute Economic Review, No. 197, pp. 58-64.

Forth, J., Kirby, S., Bryson, A., (2005) 'High Involvement Management Practices, Trade Union Representation and Workplace Performance in Britain', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 52, pp. 451-491

Barrell, R., Kirby, S. and Riley, R. (2004) ‘The current position of UK house prices’, National Institute Economic Review, No. 189, pp. 57-60.

Kirby, S. and Riley, R. (2004) ‘Compulsory work-focused interviews for inactive benefit claimants: an evaluation of the British ONE pilots’, Labour Economics, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 415-29.

Barrell, R., Kirby, S. and Riley, R. (2003) ‘Changing the inflation target’, National Institute Economic Review, No. 185, pp. 50-53.

Barrell, R., Kirby, S., Riley, R. and van Welsum, D. (2003) ‘Measuring the macroeconomic effects of reducing benefit dependency’, National Institute Economic Review, No. 186, pp. 85-97.