Steve Machin is the research director of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and director of the DfES Centre for the Economics of Education at CEP. He has been Professor of Economics at University College London since 1996. He is one of Europe's leading applied labour economists and his work spans the fields of inequality in earnings, the impact of the minimum wage on employment and earnings, technological change, trade unions, corporate performance and education. He is currently one of the editors of the Economic Journal.
