Rob Elliott works at the University of Birmingham. After finishing his PhD at the
University of Nottingham he worked in Manchester before coming to Birmingham in 2003. His
primary interest is the economics of globalisation with a special interest in
international trade, environmental economics and labour economics. 

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Articles

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Are ASEAN Countries Havens for Japanese Pollution Intensive Industry? (with Kenichi Shimamoto), The World Economy (2008)
In an era of closer worldwide economic integration, the role that environmental regulations play in...
 

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The environmental performance of firms: The role of foreign ownership, training, and experience (with Matthew A. Cole and Eric Strobl), Ecological Economics (2008)
In this paper we extend the debate on the environmental implications of foreign direct investment...
 

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On the Measurement of Product Quality in Intra-Industry Trade: An empirical test for China (with A. K.M. Azhar and Junting Liu), China Economic Review (2007)
A relatively recent development in the intra-industry trade (IIT) literature is the measurement of the...
 

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Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK (with Matthew A. Cole), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)
This paper revisits the 'jobs versus the environment' debate and provides the first analysis for...
 

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Trade and Specialisation in Pollution Intensive Industries: North-South Evidence (with A K.M Azhar), International Economic Journal (2007)
The pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and the capital-labour hypothesis (KLH) state that the relative level...
 

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Unpublished Papers

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Immigrant Wage Differentials, Ethnicity and Occupational Clustering. (with Joanne K. Lindley), Sheffield Economics Research Paper Series (2006)
We investigate occupational attainment as well as estimating earnings differentials for non-white migrants and non-white...