Zhongmin received his PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton. He organised the CEA (UK) 18th Annual Conference in Nottingham (April 2007) and co-organised the CEA (UK) and CCES joint international conferences in Shanghai (September 2007). Zhongmin won the Best Paper Award by the Chinese Economic Association in the UK (2003 and 2002). His research has focused on employment, unemployment and migration, both in the UK and in China. He has a general interest in labour economics, the Chinese economy and its labour market. His work mainly uses econometric analysis of panel data. Recent work has appeared in Regional Studies, Annals of Operations Research, Economics of Planning, Applied Economics, and China Economic Review.

Please see Dr Zhongmin Wu's webpage at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• Wu, Z.; Baimbridge, M. and Zhu, Y. “Multiple Job Holding in the UK: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey” Applied Economics [forthcoming].
• Wu, Z. and Yao , S. (2006) “On Unemployment Inflow and Outflow in Urban China” Regional Studies Vol. 40 No. 8
• Liu, W.; Sharp, J. and Wu, Z. (2006) “Preference, Production and Performance in Data Envelopment Analysis” Annals of Operations Research Vol. 145 No.1.
• Wu, Zhongmin (2004) “Regional Unemployment in Transitional China: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis” Economics of Planning Vol. 36 No. 4.
• Wu, Z. and Zhu, Y. (2004) “Income Differential and Out-migration: the Impacts of Between-gap and Within-gap” Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies Vol.2 No.1.
• Wu, Zhongmin (2004) “Wage Curve for Urban China: A Panel Data Approach” Applied Economics Letters Vol.11 No.7.
• Wu, Z. and Yao , S. (2003) “Inter-migration and Intra-migration in China: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis” China Economic Review Vol.14 No.4.
• Wu, Zhongmin (2003) “The Persistence of Regional Unemployment: Evidence from China” Applied Economics Vol.35 No.12.

Selected Journal Articles in Chinese

• Wu, Zhongmin (2005) “Urban Youth Unemployment and Wage Curve - Evidence from Panel Data of China ” China Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences No.3.
• Wu, Z. and Yao, S. (2004 ) “Urban Unemployment Inflow and Outflow in China” China Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, No.1.
• Wu, Zhongmin (2003) “Urban Unemployment and Labour Mobility in Transitional China” China Economic Quarterly, Peking University , Vol.2 No.4.
• Wu, Z. and Che, J. (1993) “A Study on the Cross-section Data Econometric Model” Journal of Research on Financial and Economic Problems, No.111.
• Wu, Zhongmin (1988) “Heterorscedasticity and Bartlett Test in Modelling Cross-section Data” Journal of Quantitative and Technical Economics, Vol.5 No.2.
• Wu, Zhongmin (1987) "On the Quantitative Economics from Nobel Economics Prizes" Journal of Foreign Economics and Management, No.106.