Staff profile

He has held many visiting research appointments in Europe – most recently at the Institute for Higher Studies in Vienna and as Commerzbank Chair at the Technical University of Chemnitz – and currently holds several research fellowships in Europe and the United States. Addison has published widely in the major economics and specialty labour journals, including the Economic Journal, Journal of Business, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Labour Economics.

He is the author of a number of labour economics texts, including The Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence (with Barry T. Hirsch), Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy, and, most recently, The Economics of Codetermination: Some Lessons from the German Experience. His immediate research interests are minimum wages, the erosion of collective bargaining in Germany and its consequences, high dimensional fixed effect wage regression models, and the analysis of female promotion and pay.

Mini Biography

John T. Addison is a labour economist who was educated at the London School of Economics (BSc, MSc, and PhD). After completing his studies at LSE, he was an economic adviser at the Office of Manpower Economics in London for a year before leaving to take up a lectureship in political economy at the University of Aberdeen, followed some years later by a professorship at the University of South Carolina where he became Hugh C. Lane Professor of Economic Theory.

• minimum wage
• the erosion of collective bargaining in Germany and its consequences
• high dimensional fixed effect wage regression models
• female promotion and pay

• Economics & Finance Department

Authored book

• Welfens, P.J.J. & Addison, J.T. (2009). Innovation, Employment and Growth Policy Issues in the EU and the US. Springer Verlag.
• Addison, J.T. (2009). The Economics of Codetermination: Lessons from the German Experience. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Addison, J.T. (2007). Recent Developments in Labour Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Addison, J.T. & Welfens, P.J.J. (2003). Labour Markets and Social Security. Berlin & New York: Springer Verlag.
• Addison, J.T. & Schnabel, C. (2003). International Handbook of Trade Unions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Welfens, P.J.J., Addison, J.T., Audretsch, D.B., Gries, T. & Grupp, H. (1999). Globalization, Economic Growth and Innovation Dynamics. Berlin & New York: Springer Verlag.
• Welfens, P.J.J., Audretsch, D.B., Addison, J.T. & Grupp, H. (1998). Technological Competition, Employment and Innovation Policy in OECD Countries. Berlin, New York: Springer Verlag.
• Addison, J.T. & Welfens, P.J.J. (1998). Labour markets and social security: wage costs, social security financing and labor market reforms in Europe and policy implications. Berlin, New York: Springer Verlag.
• Addison, J.T. & Stanley Siebert, W. (1997). Labour Markets in Europe: Issues of Harmonization and Regulation. London: The Dryden Press.
• Addison, J.T. (1991). Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press.
• Addison, J.T. & Hirsch, B.T. (1986). The Economic Analysis of Unions - New Approaches and Evidence. London and Boston George Allen and Unwin.
• Addison, J.T. & Burton, J. (1984). Trade Unions and Society: Some Lessons of the British Experience. Vancouver: Fraser Institute.
• Addison, J.T. & Siebert, W.S. (1979). The Market for Labor: An Analytical Treatment. Santa Monica, California: Goodyear/Prentice-Hall.

Journal Article

• Addison, J. T. Portugal, P. & Vilares, H. (2022). Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity. Journal of Econometrics
• Addison, John T. & Teixeira, Paulino (2021). What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives. Research in Labor Economics 49: 1-39.
• Addison, J. & Teixeira, P. (2020). Trust and Workplace Performance. British Journal of Industrial Relations 58(4): 874-903.
• Addison, J.T., Chen, Liwen & Ozturk, Orgul D. (2020). Occupational Skill Mismatch: Differences by Gender and Cohort. ILR Review 73(3): 730-767.
• Addison, T., Teixeira, P., Grunau, P. & Bellmann, L. (2019). Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany: The deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work. Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 2(1): 24-46.
• Addison, John T. & Teixeira, Paulino (2019). Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 159: 109-133.
• Torres, S., Portugal, P., Addison, J. & Guimarães, P. (2018). The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: Evidence from a Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed effects Regression Model. Labour Economics 54: 47-60.
• Addison, J. & Texeira, P. (2019). Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 239(1): 111-154.
• Addison, J.T., Ozturk, O.D. & Wang, S. (2018). The Occupational Feminization of Wages. ILR Review 7(1): 208-241.
• Addison, J.T. (2017). The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: The Legacy of Myth and Measurement. ILR Review 70(3): 814-818.
• Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Evers, K. & Bellmann, L. (2017). Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: A Case of Cooperative Industrial Relations? Industrial Relations: a Journal of Economy and Society 56(1): 73-121.
• Addison, J.T., Teixeira, P., Evers, K. & Bellmann, L. (2017). Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness. British Journal of Industrial Relations 55(3): 500-526.
• Addison, J. (2016). Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: the quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies. IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5(1): 19.
• Addison, J.T., Portugal, P. & Vilares, H. (2017). Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal. British Journal of Industrial Relations 55(3): 551-576.
• Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Evers, K. & Bellmann, L. (2016). Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Alignment from Without in Germany. Industrial Relations: a Journal of Economy and Society 55(3): 415-443.
• Addison, J. T., Blackburn, M. L. & Cotti, C. D. (2015). On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations. IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4: 24.
• Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Stephani, J. & Bellmann, L. (2015). Declining Unions and the Coverage Wage Gap: Can German Unions Still Cut It? Journal of Labor Research 36(3): 301-317.
• Addison, J., Teixiera, P., Pahnke, A. & Bellman, L. (2017). The demise of a model? The state of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany. Economic and Industrial Democracy 38(2): 193-234.
• Addison, J.T. (2014). The consequences of trade union power erosion. IZA World of Labor 2014: 68.
• Addison, J., Ozturk, O. & Wang, S. (2014). The Role of Gender and Sector in Promotion and Pay Over a Career. Journal of Human Capital 8(3): 280-317.
• Addison, J., Ozturk, O. & Wang, S. (2014). Job promotion in midcareer: gender, recession, and “crowding”. Monthly Labor Review 2014: 1-24.
• Addison, J.T., Portugal, P. & Varejão, J. (2014). Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data. Labour Economics 30: 4-11.
• Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Evers, K. & Bellmann, L. (2014). Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany. Industrial Relations 53(1): 125-156.
• Addison, J.T., Cotti, C. & Surfield, C.J. (2015). Atypical Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? Evidence from the NLSY79. Manchester School 83(1): 17-55.
• Addison, J., Teixeria, P., Bryson, A., Pahnke, A. & Bellmann, L. (2013). The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Great Britain and Germany. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 60(2): 182-209.
• Addison, J., Teixeira, P., Bryson, A. & Pahnke, A. (2013). Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model. LABOUR 27(3): 288-309.
• Addison, J.T., Blackburn, M.L & Cotti, C.D. (2013). Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment. Labour Economics 23: 30-39.
• Addison, J.T., Machado, J.A.F. & Portugal, P. (2013). The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 75(6): 980–987.
• Addison, J.T. & Ozturk, O. (2012). Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment: A Cross-Country Analysis. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60(4): 779-809.
• Addison, J., Machado, J. & Portugal, P. (2012). The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
• Addison, J.T., Blackburn, M.L. & Cotti, C.D. (2012). The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates from the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector. British Journal of Industrial Relations 50(3): 412-435.
• Addison, J., Bryson, A., Teixeira, P. & Pahnke, A. (2011). Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 58(4): 490-518.
• Addison, J & Schnabel, C. (2011). Worker Directors: A German Product that Did Not Export? Industrial Relations 52(2): 354-374.
• Addison, J., Bellmann, L., Pahnke, A. & Teixeira, P. (2011). A Research Note on the Determinants and Consequences of Outsourcing Using German Data. Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal of Labor Market Resarch 44(3): 231-244.
• Addison, J., Teixeira, P. & Zwick, T. (2010). German Works Councils and the Anatomy of Wages. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 63(2): 248-271.
• Addison, J., Centeno, M. & Portugal, P. (2010). Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach. Economica 77(305): 46-59.
• Addison, J.T. & Surfield, C.J. (2009). Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless: Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis. Applied Economics 41(9): 1077-1087.
• Addison, J.T & Surfield, C.J. (2009). Atypical Work and Employment Continuity. Industrial Relations 48(4): 655-683.
• Addison, J., Centeno, M. & Portugal, P. (2009). Do Reservation Wages Really Decline: Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages. Journal of Labor Research 30(1): 1-8.
• Addison, J. & Teixeira, P. (2009). Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy? German Economic Review 10(3): 253-269.
• Addison, J., Blackburn, M. & Cotti, C. (2009). Do Minimum Wages Raise Employment? Evidence from the U.S. Retail Trade Sector. Labour Economics 16(4): 397-408.
• Addison, J. & Portugal, P. (2008). How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment. Economics Letters 101(3): 206-209.
• Addison, J. & Belfield, C.R. (2008). The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood's Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?). British Journal of Industrial Relations 46(3): 521-531.
• Addison, J. & Portugal, P. (2008). Six Ways to Leave Unemployment. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55(4): 393-419.
• Addison, J. & Teixeira, P. (2008). Works Councils and Emplyment Growth: A Rejoinder. Industrielle Beziehungen 15(4): 427-435.
• Addison, J., Bellmann, L., Schank, T. & Teixeira, P. (2008). The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up? Journal of Labor Research 29(2): 114-137.

Working Paper

• Addison, J.T., Ozturk, O.D. & Wang, S. (2014). The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career. 2014-07.