Industrial and Labour Economics PhD/MPhil/MSc (Research)

Head: Dr David Bailey
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6700
Email: d.g.bailey@bham.ac.uk

The Industrial and Labour Economics (ILE) Group is a highly active research group with a strong focus on applied research around various overlapping themes in the economics of business.

Research strengths

A reflection of the group's research strengths can be seen from a selection of their recent projects:

• The Evolution of the Organisation of Production in a Marshallian Industrial District: The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter – a project funded by the British Academy
• The Governance of Networks as a Determinant of Local Economic Development – a project funded by the European Science Foundation
• Labour economics – projects on working conditions, trade unions, wages and employment

Their specialist areas of research include:

• The economics of labour markets and industrial relations
• The economics of international business
• The interface between business, government and local economic development
• International comparisons of productivity
• Clusters of firms and regional policy
• Innovation and networking
• Public service performance evaluation
• Globalisation and policy responses
• Co-ops, social enterprise and employee ownership
• Conflict/post-conflict reconstruction and economic development
• Trade and investment linkages between the Asia Pacific region and Europe

How to apply

• http://www.postgraduate.bham.ac.uk/apply/index.shtml

Apply online

• http://www.apply.bham.ac.uk/