New Editor-in-Chief joins Labour Economics

We are pleased to welcome Professor Ian Walker, from the Lancaster University Management School, who succeeds Andrea Ichino as the new Editor-in-Chief of Labour Economics from January 2009.

Ian Walker was trained at Liverpool and Warwick Universities in the UK in the mid to late 1970’s. He joined the faculty at Manchester University where he spent 10 years as a lecturer, before taking a chair at Keele University where he spent 10 years before moving to Warwick University for a further 10 years as a full professor, and he has only just moved to Lancaster University’s highly regarded Management School.  He has had visiting positions in Arhus University, UNSW in Sydney, and Princeton University in recent years and has spent several periods in advisory positions in government. He is a Research Fellow of the IZA in Bonn, the Geary Institute in Dublin, and the IFS in London, and he is a Fellow of the European Economics Association.

He has served on the editorial board for the journal for a year and his main research interests are in: the economics of education, labour supply, social security policy, and attitudes to risk.

Two virtual special issues from Labour Economics, available for free until June 30th, 2009

• European Association of Labour Economists 19th annual conference
  Guest Editor: Claudio Lucifora
   
  
• Firms and Employees
  Guest Editors: Julia Lane and Stefan Bender