Professor John T. Addison
Hugh C. Lane Professor of Economic Theory Emeritus
University of South Carolina, Department of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business
Professor in Economics
University of Durham, Department of Economics and Finance, Durham University Business School
Professional career and research topics
John T. Addison studied at the London School of Economics, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1967, a Master’s degree in Economics in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Labour Economics in 1971. In 2013 he was appointed to the Chair of Economics at the Durham University Business School (United Kingdom); parallel to this he has held a professorship at the University of South Carolina (USA) since 1983, where he became the Hugh C. Lane Professor of Economic Theory.
Professor Addison was appointed an IAB Research Fellow in 2005.
His current research interests include minimum wages; the erosion of collective bargaining in Germany and its consequences; high dimensional fixed effect wage regression models; and aspects of female pay and promotion possibilities.
John T. Addison has published widely in major economics and labour journals, such as the Economic Journal, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Human Resources, the Review of Economics & Statistics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the American Economic Review, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Labour Economics.