Staff Profile:Professor Giovanni Razzu
- Name:
- Professor Giovanni Razzu
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
Director of the Masters in Public Policy
Biography:
Before joining the University in November 2012, I have been a Government Economist in various Departments including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Cabinet Office and the Government Equalities Office (GEO). I have been Lead Analyst for the independent Equalities Review, which produced the report "Fairness and Freedom" and launched a new Equality Measurement Framework based on the capabilities approach. I have also been Acting Chief Economist in GEO from its establishment until 2008 and have led the Secretariat to the National Equality Panel from 2008 to 2010, which produced the influential "An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK". I have been the UK representative on the Expert Group of the European Institute for Gender Equality and on various working groups. I am now on the UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Panel.
Qualifications:
- Laurea Quadriennale (MSc equivalent), Universita Bocconi, Italy
- MSC, London School of Economics, UK
- Areas of Interest:
Labour Economics, the economics of gender, economic inequality with a particular focus on gender and the labour market; poverty and social mobility.
Research Supervision and Current PhD Students:
I am interested in supervising research in the areas above, but particularly in gender inequality in the labour market. I am also interested in the applications of the capabilities approach as applied to inequality, particularly its operationalisation and measurement frameworks and issues of autonomy, particularly related to gender inequality.
I am currently supervising the following PhD students:
- Anisa Butt (main supervisor), on decomposition of income inequality in the UK by gender and ethnicity
- Ayago Wasambile (main supervisor), on social mobility in Africa
- Zhe Wang (second supervisor), on the relationship between monetary policy and unemployment heterogeneity in EU
- Anna Zabrodzka (second supervisor) on Polarization of growth among EU regions
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 8.
2020
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Razzu, G.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2640-8314, Singleton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8247-8830 and Mitchell, M.
(2020)
On why the gender employment gap in Britain has stalled since the early 1990s.
Industrial Relations Journal, 51 (6).
pp. 476-501.
ISSN 0019-8692
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12309
- Jewell, S., Razzu, G. and Singleton, C. (2020) Who works for whom and the UK gender pay gap. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58 (1). pp. 50-81. ISSN 0007-1080 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12497
2018
- Razzu, G. and Singleton, C. (2018) Segregation and gender gaps in the United Kingdom's great recession and recovery. Feminist Economics, 24 (4). pp. 31-55. ISSN 1466-4372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1451907
2017
- Razzu, G., ed. (2017) Gender inequality in the Eastern European labour market: twenty-five years since the fall of communism. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 73. Routledge, Abingdon, pp276. ISBN 9781138999855
2016
- Razzu, G. and Singleton, C. (2016) Gender and the business cycle: an analysis of labour markets in the US and UK. Journal of Macroeconomics, 47. pp. 131-146. ISSN 0164-0704 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2015.12.006
2015
- Razzu, G. and Fernandez, A., (2015) Is Britain fairer? Understanding the wider economic and demographic context. Is Britain Fairer? Evidence Paper series. Report. Equality and Human Rights Commission ISBN 9781842066478
2014
- Razzu, G. and Singleton, C. (2014) The macroeconomic context: gender business cycles. In: Razzu, G. (ed.) Gender inequality in the labour market in the UK. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199686483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199686483.003.0002
- Razzu, G., ed. (2014) Gender inequality in the labour market in the UK. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp176. ISBN 9780199686483
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