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Staff Profile

Professor John Sessions

Professor of Economics - The Sir David Dale Chair

  • Email: john.sessions@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44(0) 1912 081843
  • Address: Floor 7, Room 7.17
    Newcastle University Business School
    5 Barrack Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 4SE
Background

John Sessions graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc Economics (First Class Honours), and was then awarded an MSc and PhD by the London School of Economics. He has worked at Loughborough University,  Brunel University and the University of Bath in the UK. He has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the U.S., the Universite-Pantheon-Assas Paris II in France, and the University of Trier, in Germany.


Research
Labour Economics; Industrial Organisation; Microeconomics.
Teaching

Labour Economics

Industrial Organisation

Publications

  • Articles

    • Heywood J, Sessions JG, Theodoropoulos N. Quality competition and worker training. Bulletin of Economic Research 2023, 75(4), 935-943.
    • Fan J, Huang J, Sessions JG, Ye J. Local Education Expenditures and Educational Inequality in China. Manchester School 2023. In Press.
    • Sessions JG, Skatun JD. Luck in a Flat Hierarchy: Wages, Bonuses and Noise. Economic Record 2022, 98(323), 373–391.
    • Huang J, Groot W, Sessions JG, Tseng Y. Age of Menarche, Adolescent Sexual Intercourse and Schooling Attainment of Women. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 2019, 81(4), 717-743.
    • Sessions JG, Skatun JD. A Bonus Given: Noise, Effort and Efficiency in a Flat Hierarchy. Economics Bulletin 2019, 39(4), 2527-2532.
    • Skåtun JD, Sessions JG. Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection. Bulletin of Economic Research 2018, 70(2), 103-118.
    • Heywood J, Bilanakos C, Sessions JG, Theodoropoulos N. Does Demand for Product Quality Increase Worker Training?. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2018, 155, 159-177.
    • Heywood J, Bilanakos C, Sessions JG, Theodoropoulos N. Does Delegation Increase Worker Training?. Economic Inquiry 2018, 56(2), 1089-1115.
    • Sessions JG, Skåtun JD. Performance Related Pay, Efficiency Wages and the Shape of the Tenure-Earnings Profile. Manchester School 2017, 85(3), 295-319.
    • Barmby T, Sessions JG, Zangeldies A. Looking after Number Two: Cooperation, Competition and Worker Absence. Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization 2016, 131(Part A), 166-182.
    • Yu G, Fu Y, Sessions JG, Wall M. A Multilevel Cross-Lagged Structural Equation Analysis for Reciprocal Relationship between Social Capital and Health. Social Science & Medicine 2015, 142, 1-8.
    • Bodvarsson OB, Papps K, Sessions JG. Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay: A Test Case of Major League Baseball. Labour Economics 2014, 28, 84-95.
    • Haynes JB, Sessions JG. Work Now, Pay Later: An Empirical Analysis of British Pension Schemes. Economic Modelling 2013, 30, 835-843.
    • Sessions JG, Theodoropoulos N. Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring. Research in Labor Economics 2013, 38, pp. 105-162.
    • Bodvarsson Ö, Sessions JG. The Measurement of Pay Discrimination Between Job Assignments. Labour Economics 2011, 18, 645-657.
    • Hudson J, Sessions JG. The Impact of Parental Education on Wages: New Wine in an Old Bottle?. Economics Letters 2011, 113, 112-115.
    • Sessions JG. Wages, Supervision and Sharing. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 2008, 48(4, 653-672.
    • Georgellis Y, Sessions JG, Tsitsianis N. 'Social Capital and Windfalls: An Empirical Analysis.'. Economics Letters 2008, 99, 521-52.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG, Watson D. The Contribution of Hour Constraints to Working Poverty in Britain. Journal of Population Economics 2007, 20(2), 445-463.
    • Georgellis Y, Sessions JG, Tsitsianis N. Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Aspects of Self-Employment Survival. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 2007, 47(1), 94-112.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Some Evidence on the Relationship Between Performance Related Pay and the Shape of the Experience-Earnings Profile. Southern Economic Journal 2006, 72(3), 660-676.
    • Brown S, Farrell L, Sessions JG. Self-Employment Matching: An Analysis of Dual Earner Couples and Working Households. Small Business Economics 2006, 26(2), 155-172.
    • Brown S, Farrell L, Harris MN, Sessions JG. Risk Preference and Employment Contract Type. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) 2006, 169(4), 849–863.
    • Pentecost EJ, Sessions JG. Labour Market Flexibility and Macroeconomics Policy in the European Union. Developments in Economics 2006, 22, 43-57.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Evidence on the Relationship between Firm-Based Screening and the Returns to Education. Economics of Education Review 2006, 25(5), 498-509.
    • Georgellis Y, Sessions JG, Tsitsianis N. Windfalls, Wealth, and the Transition to Self-Employment. Small Business Economics 2005, 25(5), 407-428.
    • Georgellis Y, Sessions JG, Tsitsianis N. Self-Employment Longitudinal Dynamics: A Review of the Literature. Economic Issues 2005, 10(2), 51-84.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Employee Attitudes, Earnings and Fixed-Term Contracts: International Evidence. Review of World Economics 2005, 141(2), 296-317.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Absenteeism, Presenteeism and Shirking. Economic Issues 2005, 9(1), 15-21.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Attitudes, Expectations and Sharing. Labour 2003, 17(4), 543-569.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Supervisor Heterogeneity: An Analysis of UK Microdata. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 2002, 49(4), 407-17.
    • Pentecost EJ, Sessions JG. Changing Labour Market Flexibility in the European Union. Review of World Economics: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 2002, 138, 148-160.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Experience-Earnings Profiles, Education and Gender. Journal of Economic Studies 2001, 28(6), 408-421.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Actual and Optimal Labour Supply. Applied Economics Letters 2001, 8(2), 111-13.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. The Effects of International Competition on the Labor Market Prospects of Union and Nonunion Workers. Journal of Labor Research 2000, 12(3), 22-40.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Employee Militancy in Britain: 1985-1990. Applied Economics 2000, 32(13), 1767-1774.
    • Brown S, Fakhfakh F, Sessions JG. Absenteeism and Employee Sharing: An Empirical Analysis Based on French Panel Data, 1981-1991. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 1999, 52(2), 234-251.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Jurassic Union Man? A profile of the British Trade Union Member. Labour 1998, 12(4), 773-796.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Education, Employment Status and Earnings: A Comparative Test of the Strong Screening Hypothesis. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 1998, 45(5), 586-592.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Education and Employment Status: A Test of the Strong Screening Hypothesis in Italy. Economics of Education Review 1998, 18, 397-404.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Unemployment, Vacancies and Unfair Dismissals. Labour 1997, 11(2), 329-349.
    • Presley J, Sessions JG. Real Business Cycles: Sectoral Versus Aggregate Shocks and the Elasticity of Demand for Income in Terms of Work Effort. Review of Political Economy 1997, 9(4), 479-484.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Housing Privatisation and the ‘Right to Buy’. Applied Economics 1997, 29, 581-590.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. A Profile of British Unemployment: Regional Versus Demographic Influences. Regional Studies 1997, 31(4), 351-366.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. The Economics of Absence: Theory and Evidence. Journal of Economic Surveys 1996, 10(1), 23-53.
    • Brown S, Button K, Sessions JG. Implications of Liberalised European Labour Markets. Contemporary Economic Policy 1996, 14(1), 58-70.
    • Sessions JG. Unemployment Stigma, Multiple Equilibria and Shirking: A Social-Psychological Interpretation of Hysteresis. Labour 1994, 8(3), 355-375.
    • Presley J, Sessions JG. Islamic Economics: The Emergence of a New Paradigm. Economic Journal 1994, 104, 584-596.
    • Barmby T, Sessions J, Treble J. Absenteeism, Efficiency Wages and Shirking. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1994, 96(4), 561-566.
    • Sessions JG. An Exposition on the Nature of the Wage Curve. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1993, 95(2), 239-244.

  • Book Chapters

    • Bodvarsson Ö, Sessions JG. Nationality Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Test. In: Epstein,GS;Gang,IN, ed. Migration and Culture (Frontiers of Economics and Globalization). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd, 2010.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. Signalling and Screening. In: Johnes,G;Johnes,J, ed. International Handbook on the Economics of Education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005.
    • Brown S, Sessions JG. International Competition and Trade Unions. In: Wunnava,PV, ed. The Changing Role of Unions. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004.
    • Sessions JG. Alternative Vision of International Monetary Reform: Comments. In: Iqbal,M;Llewellyn,DT, ed. Islamic Banking and Finance: New Perspective on Profit Sharing and Risk. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002.
    • Presley J, Sessions JG, Westaway AJ. Saudi Arabia: Problems of Economic Development in the 1990’s.’. In: R. Kimber, ed. Middle East Studies. London: BRISMES, 1993.

  • Working Paper

    • Mergoupis T, Phan V, Sessions JG. Puzzle Me This? The Vietnamese Reverse Gender Education Gap. UN-WIDER Working Paper 2018, 116/2018.