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
- Sessions JG, Skatun JD. A Bonus Given: Noise, Effort and Efficiency in a Flat Hierarchy. Economics Bulletin 2019, 39(4), 2527-2532.
- 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.
- 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.
- Skåtun JD, Sessions JG. Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection. Bulletin of Economic Research 2018, 70(2), 103-118.
- 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.
- Sessions JG, Theodoropoulos N. Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring. Research in Labor Economics 2013, 38, pp. 105-162.
- Haynes JB, Sessions JG. Work Now, Pay Later: An Empirical Analysis of British Pension Schemes. Economic Modelling 2013, 30, 835-843.
- Hudson J, Sessions JG. The Impact of Parental Education on Wages: New Wine in an Old Bottle?. Economics Letters 2011, 113, 112-115.
- Barmby T, Sessions J, Treble J. Absenteeism, Efficiency Wages and Shirking. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1994, 96(4), 561-566.