People

Dr David Zentler-Munro

Lecturer
Department of Economics
Dr David Zentler-Munro

Research and professional activities

Conferences and presentations

Collective bargaining: Its causes and consequences for workers and employers

Invited presentation, Symposium at Berkeley, 18/9/2025

Society of Labor Economists 2024 Annual Conference

4/5/2024

Rising Wage Inequality: Technological Change and Search Frictions

Invited presentation, Royal Economics Society Annual Conference, 27/3/2024

Rising Wage Inequality: Technological Change and Search Frictions

Invited presentation, 49th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, 1/3/2024

Sectoral Labour Flows: An Application to the Minimum Wage

Invited presentation, Research Symposium, Low Pay Commission, 7/9/2023

Rising Wage Inequality: Technological Change and Search Frictions

European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society 2022, Berlin School of Economics, Berlin, Germany, 18/12/2022

Has the labour market changed forever?

Oxford University Business Economics Programme, Univeristy of Oxford: Business Programme, London, United Kingdom, 5/10/2022

Search and Reallocation in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK

Invited presentation, Institute for Fiscal Studies: Pandemic Workshop, Covid 19 Pandemic Workshop, London, United Kingdom, 30/6/2022

Teaching and supervision

Current teaching responsibilities

  • Introduction to Quantitative Economics (EC114)

  • Data Science for Economics (EC915)

Publications

Journal articles (3)

Carrillo-Tudela, C., Clymo, A., Fuente, CL., Visschers, L. and Zentler-Munro, D., (2025). Spanish labour market, mobility and labour shortages. SERIEs. 16 (2), 257-296

Carrillo Tudela, C., Clymo, A., Comunello, C., Jackle, A., Visschers, L. and Zentler-Munro, D., (2023). Search and Reallocation in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK. Labour Economics. 81 (14582), 102328-102328

Cengiz, D., Dube, A., Lindner, A. and Zentler-Munro, D., (2022). Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes. Journal of Labor Economics. 40 (S1), 203-247

Reports and Papers (1)

Zentler-Munro, D., Gergs, C. and Kügler, A., You Can’t Always Get What You Want? Collective Bargaining Demands and Outcomes

Media (3)

Zentler-Munro, D., Clymo, A. and Carrillo Tudela, C., The truth about the ‘great resignation’ – who changed jobs, where they went and why. Image

Zentler-Munro, D., Clymo, A. and Carrillo Tudela, C., Over-50s are resigning en masse – new research explains who and why. Image

Zentler-Munro, D., Clymo, A. and Carrillo Tudela, C., Job search and mismatch during the Covid-19 pandemic. Image

Grants and funding

2026

German Collective Bargaining: Coverage and Success

University of Essex (QR Impact Fund)

2025

ECC Economics Consultancy

Essex County Council

ECC Economics Consultancy

Essex County Council

2024

Older Workers' Job Search and Health Shocks

British Academy

Contact

david.zentler-munro@essex.ac.uk

Location:

5B.338, Colchester Campus

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