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Professor John Skåtun

Professor John Skåtun
Professor John Skåtun
Professor John Skåtun

Chair in Economics, Head of School

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Email Address
j.skatun@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272176
Office Address

Room 823 

(Eight floor in MacRobert Building)

School/Department
Business School

Biography

Professor John Skåtun is the Dean and Head  of the 51cg Business School (UABS).  He was appointed to the role in 2023 and has together with the School executive made significant improvements to the School’s financial position to secure a sustainable future. John served previously as Deputy Head of School at two separate occasions under three different Heads of School, and has seen the School evolve from a humble origin to the outstanding EQUIS accredited School it is today. John has wide-ranging experience of academic leadership, including international business school accreditation, Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission and developing the business school strategy.

John shares EDI values in his professional life as well as in his academic work. Three publications in his CV have direct implications on gender equality. John was instrumental in identifying and recruiting the first female professor in Economics at the 51cg since the establishment of the University in 1495. He has promoted diversity within the school which is reflected by a multicultural, non-uk majority and gender balanced executive.

John values academic research. His research spans broad areas such as gender equality, trade unions, performance related pay, unemployment, infectious diseases, economic history, industrial organisation, corporate governance and Chief Executive Officer pay. His research has been published in high-quality outlets, including journals such as Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters and Economic Inquiry. John has also published in BJIR, a four ABS ranked journal and Journal of Health Economics; the top field journal in health economics, which was used as evidence in a US Senate Hearing concerning the Healthy Family Act. John acted as a Managing editor of a core economic journal: the Scottish Journal of Political Economy from 2014-2021, increasing the impact factor by a multiple of 3.5 (from 0.286 in 2014 to 1.017 in 2021).

Publications

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  • Performance-Related Pay: The Expected and the Unexpected

    Bender, K., Skatun, J.
    Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Zimmermann, K. (ed.). Springer, 28 pages
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  • Luck in a Flat Hierarchy: Wages, Bonuses and Noise

    Sessions, J., Skatun, J.
    The Economic Record, vol. 98, no. 323, pp. 373-391
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  • A Bonus Given: Noise, Effort and Efficiency in a Flat Hierarchy

    Sessions, J. G., Skatun, J. D.
    Economics Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 2527-2532
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  • Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

    Sessions, J. G., Skatun, J. D.
    Bulletin of Economic Research, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 103-118
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  • Taxation, risk aversion, and the wage gaps in tournaments

    Skatun, J. D.
    Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 834-845
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  • Bargaining on your Spouse: Coasean and Non-Coasean Behaviour Within Marriage

    Skåtun, J. D.
    Journal of Family and Economic Issues, vol. 38, pp. 263-278
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  • Performance Related Pay, Efficiency Wages and the Shape of the Tenure-Earnings Profile

    Sessions, J. G., Skatun, J. D.
    The Manchester School, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 295-319
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  • Tournaments, Risk Aversion and Taxation

    Skatun, J. D. F.
    Working Papers: Discussion Papers
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  • Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection

    Sessions, J. G., Skatun, J. D.
    Working Papers: Discussion Papers
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Bargaining on your spouse: Coasean and non-Coasean behaviour within marriage

    Skatun, J. D.
    Working Papers: Discussion Papers
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Real and Perceived Losses from Unemployment: a cross-country study

    Bender, K. A., Neumann, R. M., Skatun, J. D.
    Applied Economics, vol. 45, no. 25, pp. 3625-3636
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Personnel Decisions, Wage Profiles and Investment in Firms

    Skatun, J. D. F., Theodossiou, I.
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 742-766
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  • The death rates of smokers and their external effects

    Skatun, J. D.
    Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 455-470
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  • Constrained by hours and restricted in wages: The quality of matches in the labor market

    Bender, K. A., Skatun, J. D.
    Economic Inquiry, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 512-529
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  • Unemployment and Other Measures of Labor Market Inefficiency: A Comparison of UK and US Labor Markets 1931-1996

    Bender, K. A., Neumann, R. M., Skatun, J. D. F.
    Economic Inquiry, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 629-643
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  • Behind every well paid married man: The impact of the partner’s earning opportunity.

    Skatun, J. D. F.
    Australian Economic Papers, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 1-9
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  • The Impact of Turnout on Turning Up: Complementarity of Attendance among Co-Workers.

    Skatun, D., Skatun, J. D. F.
    Journal of Economics, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 225-242
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  • Wage dispersion, Contracts and Labour Market Imperfections.

    Skatun, J. D. F.
    International Journal of Economic Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 95-115
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  • The Overprovision of Infectious Disease Medicine

    Skatun, J. D. F.
    Economics Letters, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 61-66
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  • Take Some Days Off Why Don't You?: Endogenous Sick leave and Pay

    Skatun, J. D. F.
    Journal of Health Economics, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 379-402
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  • Contract and Spot Labour Market Interactions and the Impact of Unemployment Benefits

    Theodossiou, I., Skatun, J. D. F.
    Metroeconomica, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 474-498
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  • The impact of fringe benefits on payment profiles

    Drakopoulos, S., Skåtun, J. D.
    Research in Economics, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 81-99
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  • Delegation, union leaders and capital Allocation

    Skåtun, J. D. F.
    Labour, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 249-264
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  • Contracting with a trade union leader interface

    Skåtun, J. D.
    International Journal of Manpower, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 4-16
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