ISABEL STOCKTON

Research Coordinator (West)

 

Institution: University of Bristol

 

Discipline: Labour Economics

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Contact: i.stockton@worldofworknetwork.co.uk

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What’s your research about?

I am a quantitative researcher studying how job attributes contribute to discrepancies between men’s and women’s labour market biographies. It is well-known that men earn higher wages than women, but that is not the only way in which men’s jobs are different, on average, than women’s jobs. For example, I have researched the role of commuting distance and gathered evidence that women are more willing to accept a lower wage in order to work closer to their home. Currently, I am looking at the extent to which women also compromise on their wage to be able to adjust their schedule to fit around their other commitments.

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Tell us something interesting about yourself? 

I read the third volume of The Lord of the Rings in a single all-night sitting and more than a decade later, called my first academic paper “There and Back Again” as a nod to fellow Tolkien fans.

 

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