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Room number: CB313
Tel: +44 20 7882 8847
Fax: +44 20 8983 3580
Email: g.azmat@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ghazalaazmat/home
Office hours: Thursday 9:00-11:00

Research keywords: Labour Economics; Contracts, Incentives, and Organizations; Public Policy

Ghazala Azmat's main interests are in applied and empirical microeconomics. Her research focuses on issues relating to competition, incentives and organisational structure, as well as on topics in labour and public economics. She is currently working on a number of projects that analyse the fundamentals behind incentive schemes used by organisations to influence the performance and the participation of agents.

Selected publications

• “Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries”, (Joint with M. Güell  and A. Manning), The Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, vol. 24(1), pp1-37
• “Competition amongst Contests” (Joint with M. Möller), RAND Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 40 (4), pp. 743-768.
• “The Importance of Relative Performance Feedback Information: Evidence from a Natural Experiment using High School Students”, (Joint with N. Iriberri), The Journal of Public Economics, 2010, vol. 94 (7-8), pp. 435-452.
• “Targeting Fertility and Female Participation through the Income Tax”, (Joint with L. Gonzalez), Labour Economics, 2010, vol. 17 (3), pp. 487–502
• “The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field”, (Joint with J. Apesteguia and N. Iriberri), Forthcoming in Management Science.
• “Privatization and the decline of labour's share: International evidence from network industries” (Joint with A. Manning and J. Van Reenen ). Forthcoming in Economica.