Welcome to my Homepage
I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, UK, where I am the Head of the Economics Department.
I am a co-editor of Labour Economics, The Official Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE).
I am an elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Science.
I am affiliated to mayor international economic research networks: CEPR as a research fellow, IZA as a research fellow, and CESifo as a fellow.
I am also affiliated to mayor think tanks: IFS as a research associate, Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL as a research fellow and ISER as a research associate.
I am a member of the Steering Group of the European Search and Matching Research Group (SAM) .
My research focuses on understanding the effects of human capital, worker mobility and occupational switching on unemployment and wage inequality over the business cycle and in the long-run. I also investigate firm dynamics and firms' recruitment policies with the aim of understanding their effects on unemployment and its duration distribution over the business cycle. I use search and matching theory and quantitative methods as primary tools to study these effects. Here you will find copies of my papers and lecture notes as well as details of the workshops and conferences I organise.
Grants
2020-2022: I was the principle investigator of the project "The impact of COVID -19 on unemployment and earnings inequality" funded by the ESRC as part of the UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to Covid-19. Find out more about the results of this project by exploring our interactive website.
2020-2022: I was an external researcher in the BBVA Foundation-funded project "Evaluating policies in Spain during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath: The role of DSGE models with heterogeneous agents and sectors". For more information visit the Foundation website.
2011 - 2015: I was a co-investigator in the ESRC-funded project "Understanding the impact of recession on labour market behaviour in Britain". For more information about the project visit it's website.
Announcements
I am co-orgainsing a Search and Matching Workshop in the Federal Reserve Board between 4th-6th April 2024. The programme will be out soon.
I am co-organsing a Search and Matching Workshop in Konstanz, Germany bettwen 1st-2nd July 2024. Stay tuned for the programme.
The Departments of Economics of the University of Essex, the Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Bristol have joined forces and are running a search and matching webinar. The seminar series is jointly organised by Alex Clymo, Manolis Galenianos, Alireza Sepahsalari and myself. You can find the details of past and upcoming seminars here.
In addition to the Essex/RHUL/Bristol webinar we jointly organise the Junior SaM. The aim of this workshop is to bring together young researcher with up 2 years post-PhD working on SaM topics to present their work and benefit from feedback from more senior researchers. You can find more details here. The workshops are now a regular feature of the annual programme of SaM events.
Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt) and I have put together a special issue on Vacancies for Labour Economics, The Official Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). You can find it here.
Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) and I have put together a special issue on COVID-19 for Labour Economics, The Official Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). You can find it here.
Contact
cocarr (at) essex.ac.uk
Department of Economics, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom