John Skåtun

Professor John Skåtun is a Chair in Economics and Head of School at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He specializes in labor market models, health economics (particularly epidemiology), and microeconomic theory with a policy focus. His work includes empirical studies in labor economics and theoretical explorations of tournaments, efficiency wages, and household bargaining dynamics.

His recent publications address topics such as performance-related pay, noise in flat hierarchies, taxation impacts on wage gaps, and behavioral economics within marriages. These works span broad disciplines like Labor Economics and Microeconomic Theory, with specific subfields including tournament incentives, labor market matching, and health policy externalities.

Professor Skåtun has collaborated with researchers at the University of Exeter and Paris II, and his career includes roles in the Department of Economics at Aberdeen. He focuses on theoretical and applied policy research, with an emphasis on labor and health economics.