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Professor Melanie Jones serves as Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, having joined in 2015 after previous positions at the University of Sheffield and Swansea University. She is an active media commentator and available for postgraduate supervision, with research focused on empirical labour economics using large-scale quantitative data analysis.
Her academic qualifications include:
- PhD in Labour Economics from Swansea University
- MSc in Business Economics from Swansea University
- BSc in Economics from Swansea University
Jones specializes in disability economics and gender pay gap analysis within the UK labour market. Her work examines critical questions such as sectoral differences in gender pay gaps, earnings discrimination against disabled individuals, workplace accident risks for older workers, and disabled employees' perception of workplace treatment. She actively collaborates with policy bodies including the Low Pay Commission and Office of Manpower Economics.
Recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrate consistent focus on disability and gender pay gap intersections, particularly analyzing public sector roles, firm size effects, and transparency legislation impacts. Her work appears in top journals like Oxford Economic Papers and Social Science & Medicine, with emerging themes around pandemic labour shocks and musculoskeletal health employment retention.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- IZA Research Fellow
- ONS Fellow
Professor Jones currently supervises six PhD students including John Poole and Imran Khan. Her research is funded through ESRC Productivity Institute leadership, Nuffield Foundation grants on musculoskeletal conditions, and NIHR's Creating Health Jobs initiative. She chairs the Wales Productivity Forum and serves on the Review Body for Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration.
She leads the Economic Intelligence theme in Cardiff University's Strategic Partnership with the Office for National Statistics and is a member of WISERD. Her editorial roles include British Journal of Industrial Relations, and she contributes to the Royal Economic Society Council and ESRC Grant Assessment Panel C.
