Contact details:
Fax:  +44 (0)20 7955 6951
e-mail:  abigail.mcknight@lse.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,  External

  Research interests:

• Low wage employment

• Economics of education

• Evaluation of active labour market programmes

• Earnings inequality

 Selected publications:

• 'Graduate employability: policy and performance in higher education in the UK' with J. Smith and R. Naylor, Economic Journal, 110, 2000

• 'Transitions off Income Support: estimating the impact of New Deal for Lone Parents' with Hasluck and Elias in Early Lessons from the Phase One Prototype - cost benefit and econometric analysis, Research Report No.110, Department of Social Security, 2000

• Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility, 1977-1997: the impact of mobility on long term inequality Employment Relations Research Series No.8, Department of Trade and Industry, 2000

• Earnings Top-up Evaluation: Effects on Unemployed People. Part Two: Econometric Analysis Research Report No.131, Department of Social Security, 2001

 Other publications:  

•     Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market [CASE/133] , October 2008

•     Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market [CEPOP22] , October 2008

•     Changes in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6 [CEPOP21] , October 2008

•     Changes in earnings inequality and mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6 [CASE/132] , October 2008

•     Sheer Class? The Extent and Sources of Variation in the UK Graduate Earnings Premium [CASE 054] , March 2002

•     The Economic Basis of Social Class [CASE 080] , February 2004

•     The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement [CASE/134] , October 2008

•     The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement [CEPOP23] , October 2008

•     The changing pattern of earnings: employees, migrants and low-paid families [CEPCP272] , March 2009, 12-15 pages

•   Tracking Income: How working families' incomes vary through the year [CASEreport 32] , March 2006