Professor Mary O’Mahony

Career

Mary’s broad research area is measuring and explaining international comparisons of growth and productivity. Specific topics covered by this include the impact of labour force skills, information technology, intangible capital and innovation in generating productivity. Recent work has been concerned with incorporating health status into measures of human capital measuring the output of the education sector and using web-based data sources to better measure skills and the impact of digital readiness on firms’ survival post Covid.

Research Projects

• Measuring innovation in the digital economy
• The demand and supply of skills across regions of the UK: evidence from new data sources