Senior Economist

Dr. Andrew Aitken

Senior Economist Email: a.aitken [at] niesr.ac.uk Twitter: @@andrewmaitken

Research interests:

Andrew's research interests are labour economics, urban and housing economics, migration and political economy

Education:

Ph.D. Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2014.
M.Com. Economics, University of Auckland, 2002.
B.Com (Hons.). Economics, University of Auckland, 2001.
B. A. Geography, University of Auckland, 2001.

Employment:

Senior Economist, NIESR, 2019 -
Economist, NIESR, 2017 - August 2019
Teaching Fellow, University of Bristol, 2016/17.
Teaching Fellow, University of Southampton, 2014/15 - 2015/16.
Research Assistant, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, 2013 - 2015
Teaching Assistant, London School of Economics, 2013/2014
Teaching Associate, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010 /11 - 2013/14
Teaching Assistant, University College London, 2009/10.
Research Analyst, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 2003-2008.
Teaching Assistant, University of Auckland, 2000-2002.

Additional information:

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/andrewaitken/home

Econpapers: https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pai12.htm

Publications

"A Democratic Measure of Household Income Growth: Theory and Application to the United Kingdom" (with Martin Weale). Economica, vol 87 issue 347 (ESCoE Discussion Paper DP-2018-02).

“Imputation of Pension Accruals and Investment Income in Survey Data” ESCoE Discussion Paper 2018-05, with Martin Weale

"Housing supply, land costs, and price adjustment" (with A. Grimes). 2010. Real Estate Economics, 38:2, pp. 325-353.

"The Long-Run Impact of New Zealand’s Structural Reform on Local Communities" (with S. Stillman and M. Velamuri). 2010. Journal of Comparative Economics, 38:4, pp. 432-448.

"Rating Systems in New Zealand: An Empirical Investigation into Local Choice" (with W. McCluskey, A. Grimes, S. Kerr and J. Timmins). 2006. Journal of Real Estate Literature, 14:3, pp. 381-397.

Presentations

"Reframing a national budget: NZ wellbeing in all policies", UK Public Health Network Summit, London, 21st October 2019

Publications by Dr Andrew Aitken

UK General Election Analysis 2019 Chadha, J S, Young, G, Aitken, A, Hudson-Sharp, N, Runge, J, Boshoff, J, Espinoza, H, Lisauskaite, E, Speckesser, S, Xu, L, Nguyen, D, Rincon-Aznar, A, Stochino, A, Kara, A, Mao, X, Manzoni, C

Past, Present and Future of Immigration Aitken, A, Manzoni, C, Runge, J

Places and Spaces: Mapping Britain's Regional Divides Aitken, A, Boshoff, J, Nguyen, D, Rincon-Aznar, A, Stochino, A

The Future Path of The Minimum Wage Aitken, A, Hudson-Sharp, N, Runge, J

Measuring welfare beyond GDP Aitken, A

The Impact of the Introduction of the National Living Wage... Aitken, A, Dolton, P, Riley, R

Regional Inequality in Household Incomes in the UK: A... Aitken, A, Ebell, M, Samek, L

Blog posts by Dr Andrew Aitken

Is the National Living Wage working?

01 Feb 2019, Aitken, A