Research projects by title

Current projects

• The effects of income, gender and wealth inequality, and economic policies on macroeconomic performance 
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Cem Oyvat, Dr Eurydice Fotopoulou
    Project length: 2018-2019
    Funders: ESRC and Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network

• The care economy and gender-sensitive macroeconomic modelling for policy analysis 
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Cem Oyvat, Dr Eurydice Fotopoulou
    Project length: 2018-2019
    Funders: Hewlett Foundation and American University (USA)

• Secular Stagnation in the Eurozone
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Alberto Botta, Professor Ozlem Onaran, Benjamin Tippet
    Project length: 2017-2018
    Funders: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)

• Global finance and the welfare state
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Cem Oyvat
    Project length: 2017-2018
    Funders: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and University of Greenwich

• Wealth concentration, taxation, tax evasion and tax avoidance in Austria
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Rafael Wildauer
    Project length: 2017-2018
    Funders: Austrian Chamber of Labour

• The causes of falling wage share and prospects for growth with equality in a globalized economy
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Alexander Guschanski
    Project size: 107,000 USD
    Project length: 2015-2018
    Funders: Institute of New Economic Thinking (USA)

Past projects

• Optimal packaging of credit and Insurance for Smallholder Farmers in Africa
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ana Marr
    Project size: £745,778
    Project length: 2014-2016 
    Funders: ESRC-DFID

• Wage-led growth in Europe? Demand Effects of Changes in Functional Income Distribution in Financialised Open Economies
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Thomas Obst
    Project size: 50,254 Eur
    Project length: 2015-2016
    Research partners: Professor Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University), UK
    Funders: Foundation of European Progressive Studies, TASC–Ireland

An investment and equality-led sustainable growth programme for Europe
  Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Giovanni Cozzi, Dr Maria Nikolaidi, Dr Thomas Obst, Dr Daniele Tori
  Project size: 95,300 Eur
  Project length: 2016
  Funders: Foundation of European Progressive Studies, Economic Council of the Labour Movement (ECLM) – Denmark, TASC–Ireland

• The impact of financialisation on investment in developing and developed countries

  Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Daniele Tori 
  Project size: 12,000 USD
  Project length: 2016 
  Funders: United Nations /UNCTAD

• Wage-led growth in Europe
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Thomas Obst
    Project size: 18435 GBP
    Project length: 2015
    Funders: Foundation of European Progressive Studies, TASC–Ireland

• Working for the economy: the economic case for trade unions
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr Alexander Guschanski
    Project size: 28,420 GBP
    Project length: 2015
    Research partners: James Meadway, Alice Martin (New Economics Foundation UK)
    Funders: Prospect, Community, FDA, Nationwide Group Staff Union, Nautilus International, Royal College of Nursing, Society of Radiographers, USDAW

• Expert review of the United Nations Global Policy Model
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran
    Project size: 12,000 USD
    Project length: 2015-2016
    Funders: International Labour Office (ILO)

• The political economy of income distribution: industry level evidence from Austria
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Alexander Guschanski
    Project size: 24,000 Eur
    Project length: 2015-2016
    Funders: Vienna Chamber of Labour (Austria)

• Beyond financial regulation: European industrial policies in the wake of the global financial cris
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Giovanni Cozzi
    Project size: 25,000 Eur
    Project length: 2015-2016
   Research partners: Dr Susan Newman (University of the West of England UK), Professor Jan Toporoski (SOAS, University of London UK)
   Funders: FEPS, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), University of Erasmus Rotterdam (Netherlands)

• Beyond austerity, towards employment: a gender-aware framework
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran, Dr. Giovanni Cozzi
    Project size: 110,000 Eur
    Project length: 2015-2016
    Research partners: Professor Susan Himmelweit and Dr Jerome De Henau (Open University, UK), Dr Hannah Bargawi (SOAS, University of London UK), Lars  Anoelsen, Signe Dahl (ECLM)
    Funders: FEPS, Economic Council of the Labour Movement (ECLM) – Denmark, TASC – Ireland; FEPS

• Modelling the interactions between the ecosystem, the financial system and the macroeconomy
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Maria Nikolaidi
    Project size: 280,000 GBP
    Project length: 2014-2016  
    Research partners: Dr Yannis Dafermos (University of the West of England UK), Dr Giorgos Galanis (New Economics Foundation UK)
    Funders: Network for Social Change

• Evaluation of research and development (R&D) expenditures, firm survival, firm growth and employment: UK evidence in the OECD context
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Mehmet Ugur, Dr Edna Solomon, Dr Francesco Guidi
    Funding: 126,632 GBP
    Project length: 18 Months (June 2014 – December 2015)
    Research partners: Dr Eshref Trushin (Durham University, UK)
    Funders: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK)

• ECOTEC 21: Promoting Renewable Energies: Work Package 4.4: To explore the practical requirements of establishing a decentralised energy community combining local residents, public sector and commercial entities
    Investigators at GPERC:  Dr Anne-Marie Coles; Dr Athena Piterou
    Project length:  2013-2015
   Research partners:  Medway Council, Hampshire Country Council, Remade, University de Picadie Jules Verne, Amiens Metropole, Habitat du Littoral,   University de Caen Basse, Chambre d'agriculture de la Somme, Agence development d'urbanisme du Grande Amienois
    Funders: Interrreg  Programme France (Channel) - England

• State intervention for wage-led development in Britain
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran
    Project length: 2014
    Published by Centre for Labour and Social Studies

• The Case for a Coordinated Policy Mix of Wage-led Recovery and Public Investment in the G20
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran
    Project length: 2014
    Prepared for L20 statement at the 2014 G20 meeting

• The political economy of education systems in conflict-affected contexts
   Investigators at GPERC: Professor Mehmet Ugur, Dr Edna Solomon, Dr Francesco Guidi    Funding: 65,624 GBP
    Project length: July 2013 – June 2014
    Research partners: Professor Mario Novelli and Dr Sean Higgins (University of Sussex, UK); Dr  Oscar Valiente (University of Glasgow UK)
    Funders: The Department for International Development  (DfID, UK)

• Optimising the Dual Goals of Microfinance
    Investigator at GPERC: Prof. Ana Marr
    Project size: 220,000 GBP
    Project length: 2009 - 2013
   Funders: Leverhulme Trust, Award won under open external competition. Grant Reference Number: F/00 345/D

• Innovation and employment in low-income countries: A systematic review
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Mehmet Ugur
    Funding: 34,150 GBP
    Project length: 12 Months (April 2011 – March 2013)
    Research partners: Dr Denis Hawkes (Institute of Education, UK); Professor Arup Mitra (Institute  of Economic Growth, India)
    Funders: The Department for International Development (DfID, UK

• The effect of Income Distribution on Growth in the G20 Countries: Exploring the Possibilities for a Wage-led Recovery
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran
    Project size: 24,500 USD
    Project length: 2011- 2012
    Research partners: Dr Giorgos Galanis
    Funders: International Labour Office

• Evidence on the relationship between education, skills and economic growth in low-income countries: A systematic review
    Investigators at GPERC: Prof. Mehmet Ugur
    Project size: 26,069 GBP
    Project length: August 2010 – July 2011
    Research partners: Dr Denis Hawkes (University of Greenwich, UK)
    Funders: The Department for International Development (DfID, UK)

• The effect of globalization on the distribution of taxes and social expenditures in Europe: Do welfare state regimes matter?
    Investigators at GPERC: Professor Ozlem Onaran   Project size: 221,000 Eur
    Project length: 2008-2010
    Research partners: Valerie Boesch, Markus Leicrecht, Ilker Arslan
    Funders: Austrian Science Fund (Austria)

• Adoption and Diffusion of Sustainable Energy Technologies in London
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Anne-Marie Coles; Dr Athena Piterou
    Project size:  5000 GBP
    Project length:   2011-2012
    Research Partners: Professor Audley Genus, Kingston University
    Funders: Greenwich University Research and Enterprise Fund

• Transnational Entrepreneurship and Traditional Chinese Medicine
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Anne-Marie Coles
    Project size: 12,000 GBP
    Project length: 2010-2011
    Research partners: Dr Lin Yan, Anglia Ruskin University
    Funders: Greenwich University Research and Enterprise Fund

• Sustainable technology transition through innovation network reconfiguration – dematerialising the 'printed paper' text
    Investigators at GPERC: Dr Anne-Marie Coles; Dr Athena Piterou
    Project size: 130,000 GBP
    Project length: 2004-2008
  Research partners: Professor Fred Steward, University of Westminster, Professor Ruth McNally, Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Helena Valve, SKYE, Helsinki, Dr Joyce Tsoi, ESRC Sustainable Technologies Programme