Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth

Staff

Professor Donal O'Neill

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Experience and Affiliations

  • Professor, Dept. of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth 2005-
  • Research Fellow, IZA Bonn, 2007-
  • Head, Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth 2006-2007
  • Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth, 2000-2005
  • Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, Finance and Accounting, NUI Maynooth, 1995-2000.
  • Research Associate, Economics Dept, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.. 1993-1995

Academic Background

  • 1984 -1987        B.A Maynooth
  • 1987-1988         M.A in Economics (UCD)
  • 1988-1993         Ph.D (University of Iowa)

Publications in Refereed Journals

  1. O’Neill, D (2008), “The Implications of Growth-Regressions for Equality of Opportunity,” Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 731-742.  http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/gpn006v2
  2. O'Neill, D. and P. Van Kerm (2008) , "An Integrated Framework for Analysing Income Convergence," The Manchester School, vol. 76, issue 1, pp. 1-20.
  3. O'Neill, D, O.Sweetman and D. Van de gaer (2007), "The Effects of Measurement Error and Omitted Variables when using Transition Matrices to Measure Intergenerational Mobility," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 5, pp. 159-178.
  4. O’Neill, D., O.Sweetman and D. Van de gaer (2006) “The impact of Cognitive Skills on the Distribution of the Black-White Wage Gap,” Labour Economics, Vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 343-356.
  5. O’Neill, D. B. Nolan and J. Williams (2006) “Evaluating the Introduction of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of firms in Ireland,” LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations , Vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 63-90.
  6. O’Neill D and P.Dolton (2002) “The Long-Run Effects of Unemployment Monitoring and Work Search Programmes. Some Experimental Evidence from the U.K.." The Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 20, no. 2 (April) pp. 381-403.
  7. O'Neill, D. and O.Sweetman (2001) "Inequality in Ireland 1987-1994: A Comparison using measures of Income and Consumption" Journal of Income Distribution, Vol. 10, No. 3-4, (Fall-Winter) pp. 23-39.
  8. O’Neill, D. (2000), “Evaluation of Labour Market Interventions,” Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Vol. XXIX, pp. 177-214.
  9. O’Neill, D, O.Sweetman and D.Van de gaer (2000) “Equality of Opportunity and Kernel Density Estimation: An application to Intergenerational Mobility,” in T. Fomby and R.Carter Hill (eds), Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 14. Pp. 259-274, JAI Press.
  10. O’Neill, D and O.Sweetman (1998) “Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Evidence from Unemployment Patterns,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 60, no. 4 (November). pp. 431-449
  11. Dolton, P, D.O’Neill and O.Sweetman (1996) "Gender Differences in the Changing Labour Market : The Role of Legislation and Inequality in Changing the Wage Gap for Qualified Workers," Journal of Human Resources, vol 31, no. 3, pp 549-566.
  12. Dolton, P and D. O’Neill (1996), “Unemployment Duration and the Restart Effect: Some Experimental Evidence,” The Economic Journal cvi, no. 435 (March), pp. 387-400.
  13. Dolton, P and D. O’Neill (1996), “The Restart Effect and the Return to Full-Time Stable Employment,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A:clix, part 2, pp. 275-288. (Reprinted in The Economics of Unemployment Vol. IV (2000), ed. by P.N. Junankar (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar )
  14. O’Neill, D (1995), “Education and Income Growth: Implications for cross-country inequality,” Journal of Political Economy, ciii, no. 6, pp.1289-1301.
  15. Dolton, P and D. O’Neill (1995), “The Impact of Restart on Reservation Wages and Long-Term Unemployment,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, lvii, no. 4, pp. 451-471.
  16. Boyle. G. and D. O’Neill (1990) “The generation of output supply and input demand elasticities for a Johansen-type model of the Irish agricultural sector,” European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 17, pp. 387-405.

 

Books, chapters in books and other reports:

  1. O’Neill D (2004) “Low Pay and the Minimum Wage in Ireland,” Chapter 1, pp. 3-26, in the Minimum Wages, Low Pay and Unemployment, editors D. Meulders, R. Plasman and F. Rycx, Applied Econometrics Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
    2. Book Description:
    http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403936420
    Online Copy of my chapter:
    http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403936420.pdf
  2. Nolan, B, D.O’Neill and J. Williams (2002) The Impact of  the Minimum Wage on Irish Firms, ESRI Policy Research Series, Number 44, ISBN 0707002095
  3. O’Neill, D. (with A. Barrett, T.Callan, A.Doris, H.Russell, O.Sweetman and J.McBride) (2000) How Unequal Male-Female Wages Differences in Ireland, ESRI General Research Series, Oaktree Press.
  4. O’Neill, D. and O.Sweetman “Female Labour Force Participation and Household Income Inequality in Ireland,” Chapter 7 in The Distribution of Income in Ireland, Oak Tree Press Publishers in association with Combat Poverty Agency.
  5. Nolan, B, D.O’Neill and J. Williams (1999) “The impact of A Minimum Wage in Ireland: Learning from a New Survey of Irish Firms,” in The Impact of Minimum Wage in Ireland, Published by Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, (ISBN 0-7076-6787-9),
  6. Boyle, G. T. McCarthy and D.O’Neill (1998) “The Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment,” in Report of the National Minimum Wage Commission, The Stationary Office, Government Publications, Dublin, April.
  7. O’Neill, D. (1996) “Culling the Dole Queues,” Business and Finance, vol.. 26, September.

Current Research   

  • Doris, A, D.O'Neill and O.Sweetman "Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 1994-2001." NUIM Working paper # N193/07/08
  • O’Neill, D and O.Sweetman “Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Mobility Revisited,"
  • O’Neill, D.and D. Conniffe “ “An Efficient Estimator for Dealing with Missing Data on Explanatory Variables in a Probit Model,” NUIM Working paper # N1960908

Academic Presentations

  • “Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates,” presented at the Economics Dept. UCD, Dublin (November 6th 2009)
  • “A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from a Randomised Evaluation of a Parenting Programme,” seminar NUI Maynooth, Dept. of Economics, Finance & Accounting, (October 16th 2009.)
  • “A Cost Analysis of the Incredible Years Parenting Programme,” presented at the Archways National Conference, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, (September 21st 2009)
  • “Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates,” presented at the European Econometrics Society Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain (August 25th 2009)
  • “Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates,” seminar at University of Padua, Italy (June 23rd 2009)
  • “Does Growth Affect the Nature of Inequality? Ireland 1994-2001” invited speaker at plenary session of CEPS/INSTEAD International Workshop on “Measuring discrimination, inequality and deprivation: Recent developments and applications" Differdange, Luxembourg, (October 24-25 2008)
  • “Econometrics Now and Then,” presentation given at conference to honour Professor Paddy Geary, Paddy Geary at Maynooth: Years of Inspiration to Students of Economics and Finance, (Sept 26th 2008)
  • “An Efficient Estimator for Dealing with Missing Data on Explanatory Variables in a Probit Model,”NUI Maynooth seminar (Feb. 11th 2008)
  • “An Integrated Framework for Analysing Income Convergence Across Countries,” International Conference in Memory of two Eminent Social Scientists: C. Gini and M.Lorenz, University of Siena, Italy (May 24-27, 2005)
  • “An Empirical Note on the Relationship between Unemployment and Risk-Aversion,” Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Queens University Belfast (December 3rd, 2004)
  • “An Empirical Note on the Relationship between Unemployment and Risk-Aversion,” NUI Maynooth seminar (November 29th, 2004)
  • “A New Approach for Analysing Income Convergence Across Countries,” RES Annual Conference, Swansea (April, 2004)
  • “A New Approach for Analysing Income Convergence Across Countries,” NUI Maynooth seminar (November 17th , 2003)
  •  “The Consequences of Specification Error for Distributional Analysis with an Application to Intergenerational Mobility,” invited seminar at the Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam, Holland (October, 2003)
  • “The Impact of Cognitive Skills on the Black-White Wage Gap,” presented as a poster at the HEA Review of NIRSA, Maynooth (October 2003)
  • “A New Approach for Analysing Income Convergence Across Countries,” invited seminar at Dublin Economics Workshop, Trinity College Dublin, (May 16th 2003)
  • “The Consequences of Specification Error for Distributional Analysis with an Application to Intergenerational Mobility,” invited seminar at Aberdeen University, Scotland (October, 2002)
  • “The Consequences of Specification Error for Distributional Analysis with an Application to Intergenerational Mobility,” invited seminar at Queens University Belfast (October, 2002)
  • “Evaluating the Impact of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of Firms,” Applied Econometrics Association Annual Conference, Brussels (May, 2002)
  • Discussant for “Schooling Returns, Schooling Decisions and Education Finance,” Barrington Lecture by Colm Harmon presented to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, ESRI (May 2002)
  • “Evaluating the Impact of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of Firms,” Irish Economic Association Conference, Mullingar (April, 2002)
  • “Evaluating the Impact of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of Firms,” Royal Economics Society Annual Conference, Warwick U.K (March 2002)
  • “Evaluating the Impact of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of Firms,” NUIM (March 2002)
  •  “The Impact of Cognitive Skills on the Black-White Wage Gap,” invited seminar at ESRI (February 2002)
  • “Evaluating the Impact of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of Firms,” Summer Econometric Society Meetings, University of Maryland (June 2001)
  • Discussant for “Abandoning the Sinking Ship. The composition of worker flows prior to displacement,” by P.Lengermann and L. Vilhuber at the Summer Econometric Society meetings University of Maryland (June 2001)
  • “Estimation of Counterfactual Densities: An Application to black-white wage differences in the U.S,” invited seminar at NUI Cork (March 2001).
  • “Estimation of Counterfactual Densities: An Application to black-white wage differences in the U.S,” presented at the European Society of Population Economics annual conference, Bonn, Germany (June 2000)
  • “Evaluating Labour Market Interventions,” presented as the Barrington Lecture to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Dublin (March 2000)
  • Invited panellist at CEPR conference on Marginal Labour Markets in Metropolitan Areas, Dublin (October 1999).
  • Panellist for “Male-Female Wage Differentials in Ireland”, Economic and Social Research Institute, (October 1999).
  • “Equality of opportunity and Kernel Density Estimation: An application to Intergenerational Mobility,” presented at the Summer Meetings of the American Econometric Society Meetings, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A, (June 1999).
  • “Equality of opportunity and Kernel Density Estimation: An application to Intergenerational Mobility,” invited seminar at NUI. Galway (March 1999).
  • “Female Labour Supply and Income Inequality,” at the International Association for Review of Income and Wealth 25th Anniversary Conference, Cambridge, U.K, (August 1998).
  • “Female Labour Supply and Income Inequality,” presented at the Irish Economic Association Annual Meeting (April 1998)
  • “Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Evidence from Unemployment Patterns,” European Association of Labour Economists Annual Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, (September 1997)
  • Invited Panellist at Symposium on Unemployment, Trinity College, (June 1997)
  • “The Persistence of Poverty in Britain: Evidence from Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility,” invited seminar at The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin (November 1996)
  •  “The Persistence of Poverty in Britain: Evidence from Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility,” Labor Workshop, Economics Dept, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. (May 1996)
  •  “Restart and Roundabouts: Experimental Evidence of the Long-Term Effects of the Restart Unemployment Programme ,” presented at the First Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists, Chicago, U.S.A, (May 1996)
  • “The Persistence of Poverty in Britain: Evidence from Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility,” invited seminar at Economics Dept, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. (February 1996)
  •  “The Persistence of Poverty in Britain: Evidence from Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility,” Workshop on Inequality, London School of Economics, London. U.K., (November 1995).
  • “The Impact of Restart on Long-Term Unemployment: Some Experimental Evidence,” presented at Royal Economics Society Annual Conference, Kent, U.K (April 1995)
  • “The Impact of Restart on Long-Term Unemployment: Some Experimental Evidence,” presented at the Winter Meetings of the American Economics Association, Washington, U.S.A (January 1995)
  • “Earnings Variance over the Life-Cycle,” Midwest Econometrics Association, 1st Annual Meeting, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. (September 1991)

 

Awards and Research Grants:

Recipient of the Barrington Medal for the year 1999/2000. The medal is awarded by the Council of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland to one researcher, under the age of 34, in recognition of their contribution to research in the social sciences. The recipient becomes the Barrington Lecturer for that year.

D.O’Neill (with O.Sweetman) “Inequality and its Implications for the Irish Labour Market” Social Science Research Council. IR£4500 – (November 1997)

D.O’Neill with T.Callan and B.Nolan (ESRI) and O.Sweetman (NUI Maynooth) “Inequality in Ireland” Combat Poverty Agency. IR£3000. (November 1997)

D.O’Neill “The impact of the National Minimum Wage in Ireland,” with G.Boyle and A.Doris (NUI Maynooth), T.Callan, J.FitzGerald, B,Nolan and J.Williams (ESRI) and S. Machin (University College London)
Inter-Departmental Group on the Implementation of a National Minimum Wage
Total Value of Grant IR£130,000 (1999)

D.O’Neill with A.Barrett and T.Callan (ESRI) and A.Doris and O.Sweetman (NUI Maynooth) “Male-Female Wage Differentials in Ireland”
Department of Justice,Equality and Law Reform.
O’Neill and Sweetman IR£5000. (June 1999)

Member of the consortium that was awarded the design brief for the Irish National Longitudinal Study of Children. Funded by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs. (February 2000).

Member of the consortium that was successful in obtaining funding for the development of the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) from the Cycle 2 of the Higher Education Authority’s PRTLI scheme (total Amount IR£2.236m) (January 2000).

D.O’Neill (with B.Nolan and J.Williams) “A Follow-up Study on the Impact of the Minimum Wage in Ireland,” Funded by The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment 
O’Neill IR£5000 (November 2001).

Member of the Maynooth Labour Studies group that was named partners in the UCD led research proposal that was successful in obtaining €3.2m in funding under Cycle 3 of the Higher Education Authority’s PRTLI scheme (December 2001).

Member of the Maynooth led Consortium that received approximately €1m from the Atlantic Philanthropies  for the Evaluation of the Incredible Years Programme (October 2007). Sole Responsibility for the Cost-Effectiveness component of the evaluation.

D’O’Neill (with A.Doris and O.Sweetman) “A Study of Earnings Dynamics and Inequality across European Countries” Project received full funding of €39,176 from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (November 2007)

 

External Assignments.

  • Member of the Government's Expert Academic Advisory Panel to the OECD for their report on "Learning for Jobs: OECD Review of Vocational Education and Training," (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, February 2009)
  • Member of the ESRC Expert Review Panel for the Research Centre on Spatial Economics (2007)
  • Managing EditorThe Economic and Social Review (2001-2004)
  • Associate Editor The Economic and Social Review (2004-2007).
  • Member of the Programme Committee for the 2004 annual conference of the Irish Economic Association at Belfast.
  • Member of the Programme Committee for the 2003 annual conference of the Irish Economic Association at Limerick.
  • Member of the Programme Committee for the 2002 annual conference of the Irish Economic Association at Mullingar.
  • Member of the Programme Committee for the 2001 annual meeting of the Irish Economic Association, Galway (April).
  • Member of the Council of the Irish Economics Association (2001-present).
  • Member of the Council of Economic and Social Studies (2001-present)
  • Presented the 1999/2000 Barrington Lecture in Economics to the Royal Statistical Society in May 2000.
  • Acted as labour market expert to the CSF Evaluation Unit of the Dept. of Finance for the duration of the study on the ‘Labour Market Impact of Human Resource Interventions in the Community Support Framework for Ireland’. (August 1998-August 1999).
  • Member of the interview panel for the position of lecturer in Economics at Waterford Institute of Technology, February 2000.
  • Member of the Statistical Liaison Group on Labour Market Statistics, whose primary purpose is to assess ongoing statistical activities involving the labour market and to advise the Central Statistics Office and the National Statistics Board of emerging needs.
  •  Co-Founder of the Dublin Labour Studies Group (http://www.may.ie/academic/economics/dlsg/page1.html). The group was established as a forum for the discussion of issues in labour economics. Participants include researchers from Maynooth, Trinity, UCD and the Economic and Social Research Institute. Regular seminars take place on a rotating basis throughout host institutions of DLSG researchers.
  • Member of NUI Maynooth team (D.O’Neill, G.Boyle and Aedin Doris) to advise a Government appointed interdepartmental group on the introduction of a minimum wage
  • Member of NUI Maynooth team (D.O’Neill, A. Doris and O.Sweetman) who together with researchers from the ESRI produced a commissioned report on Male-Female Wage Differentials in Ireland to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.
  • Member of NUI Maynooth team (D.O’Neill, G.Boyle and T.McCarthy) that produced a commissioned report for the National Minimum Wage Commission analysing the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages (1998).
  • Member of NUI Maynooth team (D.O’Neill and O.Sweetman) who together with researchers from the ESRI produced a commissioned report on Income Inequality in Ireland for the Combat Poverty Agency.
  • External referee for postgraduate scholarship application submitted to the Royal Irish Academy.
  • Expert Assessor for the Government of Ireland Post-Graduate Scholarship Scheme in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2002-3.
  • Referee for

    The BE journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, The Bulletin of Economic Research, Economica, The Economic Journal, The Economic and Social Review, Education Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Population Economics, The Economic Record – Journal of the Economic Society of Australia, Labour Economics, The Journal of Labor Economics, The Manchester School, The Review of Income and Wealth, The Journal of Econometrics.

  • Member of the following professional bodies

Member of the European Association of Labour Economists.

Member of the Royal Economic Society.

Member of the Econometric Society.

Member of the Irish Economic Association

Member of the American Economic Association.

Meetings or Conferences Organised

  • Organiser of the Dublin Labour Studies Group seminars hosted at NUI Maynooth (see http://economics.nuim.ie/dlsg/page2005.html)
  • Maynooth One Day Labour Study Workshop on Educational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility  (sole organiser). The workshop took place in NUI Maynooth on February 12th 2004 10:00-16:30. The guest speakers were Prof. Anders Bjorklund (SOFI, Stockholm University) and Prof. Joseph Altonji (Yale University).
  • Dublin One Day Labour Study Workshop (joint organiser with Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez (ISSC)). The workshop took place in UCD on April 18th 2003 from 10:15-18:30. The workshop brought together economists and econometricians in the Dublin area for a day of scientific interaction. The guest lecture was given by Prof. Michael Lechner (St Gallen University, Switzerland).
  • Maynooth organiser of the Dublin Economics Workshop 1997-2000.