Professor Jo Swaffield

Professor Jo Swaffield

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Research interests

  • Labour economics
  • Applied microeconometrics
  • Gender wage gap

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Jo is an applied micro labour economist with a particular interest in the UK labour market. Her main areas of research interest are labour economics and applied microeconometrics, focusing on the UK labour market on issues such as the gender wage gap, in-work poverty and low wages (including the minimum wage and the Living Wage).

Jo is currently a member of the Home Office’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), Trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), Governor at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and Chair, Royal Economic Society's Women's Committee.