Dr William Collier

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Lecturer in Economics

Office: B1.04 Keynes
Telephone: +44 1227 823432
Email: William Collier

William Collier is Lecturer in Economics. He completed both his MA and PhD at the University of Kent and was previously Research Fellow at the Centre for European, Regional and Transport Economics (CERTE).

William’s main research interests are in the fields of Labour Economics and Applied Microeconometrics. His current work explores the relationship between employer provided training and establishment survival.

Research

Research interests

William’s research includes work on inter-industry wages and employer provided training and business performance. He has recently completed a funded project "Training and Establishment Survival" on behalf of the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA). An executive summary (pdf) and the final report (pdf) are available for download.

Current research projects include:

  • “Inactivity, State Dependence and Individual Heterogeneity in the UK”
  • “The Labour Supply Decisions of Retired Workers” (with Stephen Allen)
  • “Disability in a household context” (with Arnaud Chevalier & Tarja Viitanen)
  • “The Economics of the Setting of Bookmakers’ Odds” (with John Peirson)


William's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pco148.htm

Current work

Working papers
  • "The Economics of the Setting of Bookmakers' Odds", (with John Peirson), UKC Studies in Economics, forthcoming
  • "Education, Training and Economic Peformance: Evidence from Establishment Survival Data", (with Francis Green, Young-Bae Kim and John Peirson), KDPE 0822.

Publications

Articles
  • "Training and Establishment Survival", William Collier, Francis Green and John Peirson, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 52, 2005, 710-735.
  • "Unemployment Duration and Individual Heterogeneity: A Regional Study", Applied Economics, 37, 2005, 133-153.
  • "Inter-industry Wage Differences and Individual Heterogeneity", Alan Carruth, William Collier and Andrew Dickerson, Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 66, 2004, 811-846.
Contributions to Books
  • "Training and Establishment Survival" (with Francis Green & John Peirson) in G.F.Green (ed) Recent Developments in the Economics of Training, Volume 203 in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, 2007, Edward Elgar.
  • "The Presence of Favourites and Biases in Bookmakers' Odds" (with John Peirson) in V.Williams (ed) Information Efficiency in Financial and Betting Markets, 2005, Cambridge University Press.
Reports
  • "Training and Establishment Survival", William Collier, Francis Green and Young-Bae Kim, Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA), Research Report 20, March 2007.
  • "Inter-regional Capital and Labour Flows Across an International Border: a European Case Study", William Collier and Roger Vickerman, Centre for European and Regional Transport Economics (CERTE), December 2001.
  • "Labour Markets in EU Border Regions: the Case of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais", William Collier and Roger Vickerman, Centre for European and Regional Transport Economics (CERTE), December 2001.
  • "Labour Flows in EU Border Regions: the Case of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais", William Collier and Roger Vickerman, Centre for European and Regional Transport Economics (CERTE), December 2001.
  • "Capital Flows in EU Border Regions: the Case of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais", William Collier and Roger Vickerman, Centre for European and Regional Transport Economics (CERTE), December 2001.
  • "Capital Flows Across an Internal EU Border Crossing: the Location and Recruitment Decisions of French Businesses in the English County of Kent", William Collier and Roger Vickerman, Centre for European and Regional Transport Economics (CERTE), December 2001.
  • "Cross-Border Activity in the Kent - Nord-Pas de Calais - Belgium Euroregion: Some Comparative Evidence", William Collier and Roger Vickerman, Centre for European and Regional Transport Economics (CERTE), December 2001.

Teaching

PhD supervision

Current students
  • Mr Cyrus Farsian: Essays On the cyclicality of real wages (second supervisor).
  • Mr Javier Valbuena: Topics in Economics of Education (second supervisor).
Past students
  • Dr Stephen Allan: "The labour supply and retirement of older workers; an empirical analysis" completed 2008.

Administrative roles

  • School IT Support Officer
  • School Web Editor
  • Member, University of Kent Computer Users Panel