Karen A. Mumford

Research Fellow

University of York

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Research Interests

Karen Mumford is a Professor who specialises in applied labour economics. She received her PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). Karen’s research topics include: wage bargaining; training; employment dynamics; absenteeism; discrimination and the relative labour market position of women; networking in labour markets; job satisfaction; and implications from using the family as the unit of analysis. Karen has been the Chair of the Royal Economic Society (RES) Women's Committee, Convenor of the UK Work Pensions and Economics Group (WPEG), a Harkness Fellow and a Leverhulme Fellow. She is currently an elected Member of the RES Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She was appointed CBE for services to Economics and Labour Market Diversity in the 2016 New Year’s Honours List.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14482
Pay Gaps in the National Health Service: Observability and Disclosure
Karen A. Mumford, Edith Aguirre, Anna Einarsdóttir, Bridget Lockyer, Melisa Sayli, Benjamin A. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14156
Measuring Research Excellence Amongst Economics Lecturers in the UK
Richard McManus, Karen A. Mumford, Cristina Sechel
pubished in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022, 74 (2), 386 - 404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12500
Labour Supply and Childcare: Allowing Both Parents to Choose
Karen A. Mumford, Antonia Parera-Nicolau, Yolanda Pena-Boquete
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(3), 577-602.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12397
Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?
Karen A. Mumford, Cristina Sechel
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (1), 82-113
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10453
Workplaces, Low Pay and the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Tim Butcher, Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9059
Power-Couples and the Colocation Hypothesis Revisited
Francesco Mariotti, Karen A. Mumford, Yolanda Pena-Boquete
published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 6 (1), 1-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8302
Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia
Francesco Mariotti, Karen A. Mumford, Yolanda Pena-Boquete
published in: Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48(1), 43-64
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6673
Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace
Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith
published in: Manchester School, 2015, 83 (3), 307 -313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6558
The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?
Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford, Catia Nicodemo
published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4821
Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain
Filipe Almeida-Santos, Yekaterina Chzhen, Karen A. Mumford
published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60
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