Industrial and Labour Economics: University of Birmingham

Degree: PhD/MPhil/MSc
Address: Birmingham Business School, University House, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2TY, United Kingdom
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Duration: PhD – 3 years full-time equivalent, MPhil – 2 years full-time equivalent, MSc (Research) – 1 year full-time equivalent
Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6225
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 7380
Website: http://www.business.bham.ac.uk/
Scholarship and Grants: http://www.international.bham.ac.uk/scholarships.htm, http://www.postgraduate.bham.ac.uk/documents/pg-sources-of-finance-2008.pdf

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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: