Olive Sweetman
Lecturer
Economics, Finance and Accounting
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
Olive Sweetman is a lecturer in Economics at Maynooth University. She obtained her Ph.D from the University of Iowa in 1994. Her main interests are in the areas of labour economics and the economics of education. She has published articles examining the gender and racial wage gap, single-sex education, inequality and intergenerational mobility. Her research has been published in leading international economics journals including the Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Human Resources, Labour Economics, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the Economics of Education Review and the IZA Journal of Labor Economics. She was a member of the board of Combat Poverty from 2003-2006 and served as editor of the Economic and Social Review from 2010-2013.
Research Interest
Labour economics and the economics of education.
Publications
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2015 'Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The response of the Irish Labour Market' Dr Olive Sweetman (with Dr. Aedin Doris & Prof. Donal O'Neill) (2015) 'Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The response of the Irish Labour Market'. IZA JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LABOR STUDIES, 4:18
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2015 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' Dr Olive Sweetman & Prof. Donal O'Neill (2015) 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors'. Empirical Economics, forthcoming
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2000 'Equality of Opportunity and Kernel Density Estimation: An application to Intergenerational Mobility' D.O'Neill, O.Sweetman and D. Van de gaer (2000) 'Equality of Opportunity and Kernel Density Estimation: An application to Intergenerational Mobility' In: Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 14. JAI Press.
