Professor
Andrew J. Seltzer
I am an economic historian
with an interest in 19th and 20th century labour markets.
His current research looks at 1) the impact of early minimum wage laws on Australian
labour markets (with Jeff Borland) 2) the impact of public transportation on
1930s London labour markets (with Jonathan Wadsworth and Jessica Bean) 3)
academic tenure, effort, and information provision (with Steffen Huck and
Bjoern Hartig) 4) school bombings and educational attainment in northwest
Pakistan (with Sarah Khan).
I hold a B.A. from Colby College
and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois. Prior to coming to Royal Holloway he was
a post-doctoral fellow at the University
of Sydney and a lecturer at
the University of Melbourne.
I also am Visiting Professor
of Economic History
at the London School of Economics, Fellow at IZA, Fellow at The
Institute for Compensation Studies (Cornell), and Fellow of the Centre
for Economic History (Australian National University)
Recent Papers (under
construction)
“The Impact of
Female Employment on Male Salaries and Careers: Evidence from the English
Banking Industry, 1890-1941”, Economic
History Review, 66, 4 (2013), pp. 1039–1062. (IZA Working Paper Link)
“Female
Salaries and Careers in British Banking, 1915-41”, Explorations in Economic History, 48, 4, (2011), pp.
461-477. (Science
Direct Link)
“Deferred
Compensation in Multi-Period Labor Contracts: An Experimental Test of Lazear’s Model” (co-authors
“Did Firms Cut Nominal Wages in a Deflationary Environment?: Micro-Level Evidence from the
Late 19th and early 20th Century Banking Industry”, Explorations in
Economic History, 47, 1 (2010), pp. 112-125.
(Science
Direct Link)
Other Research News
I am co-editor of the Australian
Economic History Review. The Journal homepage is here.
I am co-organising the Royal Holloway,
Department of Economics 20th Anniversary Academic Conference. Speakers will include: Nicolas
Crafts, Omer Moav, Dan Hamermesh, Dirk Engelmann, Hans-Theo Norman, and Joel
Sobel. Watch this page for more details.
The 2017 Economic History
Society Conference will be held at Royal Holloway. I will be local organizer.
It is the second time that the conference has been held in London, and promises
to be one of the most attended economic history conferences held in the UK.
Details here.
I have created several large
data sets of personnel records of English and Australian banks. Some of this
data can now be made freely available. You can download career histories of
every officer of the Union Bank of Australia employed between 1887 and 1900 here. The codebook
for the data set is available here.
Links to former PhD students
who are still in academia
Sarah
Khan (Gottingen), Andre Sammartino (Melbourne), Edwyna Harris (Monash)
Teaching
EC3342 International Economic
History (not taught for the past couple of years, the most recent outline is here)
EC1103 Economics Workshop (no
longer taught)
An Introduction to Economic History here
What is Personnel Economics? here
EC2215 Personnel Economics (course outline)
Just for fun
My friend Robert Dixon at the
Some Cool Links
Economics - Economic History Resources, Economics Resources,
Fun Stuff - Cycling News, Cycling in the Alps, Groucho Marx, Jonathan Richman, History of the Blues, The Best Store in the World, A Quick Game of Chess, Cryptozoology