Dr. Colin Green

Senior Lecturer

Department of Economics

Lancaster University

Phone: (+44) (0)1524 594667
c.p.green@lancaster.ac.uk

Other Websites

Economics Department

Education Economics

IWAEE

Ideas

My research areas are education, labour and personnel economics. I also organise the annual International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE) and act as Associate Editor for Education Economics. More details are available from my vitae.

Selected Working Papers

`Play Hard, Shirk Hard? The Effect of Bar Hours Regulation on Absence and Health.’ (with M Navarro Paniagua).

`Unions, Dissatisfied Workers and Sorting’ (with J.S.Heywood), pdf here

‘Employed and Unemployed Job Search Methods: Australian Evidence on Search Duration, Wages and Job Stability’

Recent Publications

`Does Raising the School Leaving Age Reduce Teacher Effort? Evidence From a Policy Experiment’ (with M. Navarro Paniagua), Economic Inquiry, (forthcoming)

‘Piece Rates and Workplace Injury: Does Survey Evidence Support Adam Smith?’ (with K. Bender and J.S. Heywood). Journal of Population Economics, 25, 569-590, (2012).

‘Profit Sharing, Separation and Training’ (with J.S. Heywood) British Journal of Industrial Relations, 49, 623-642, 2011.

 ‘Flexible Contracts and Subjective Wellbeing’ (with J.S. Heywood) Economic Inquiry, 49, 716-729, 2011.

`Profit Sharing and the Quality of Relations with the Boss?’ (with J.S.Heywood)  Labour Economics, 17, 849-858, 2010.

 ‘Flexible Workers in Inferior Jobs: Re-appraising the Evidence’ (with P. Kler and G.Leeves) British Journal of Industrial Relations, 48, 605-629, 2010.

 ‘Does Performance Pay Increase Job Satisfaction?’, (with J. Heywood),  Economica , 75, 710-728, 2008.

 ‘Worker Absence and Shirking: Evidence from Matched Teacher-School Data’, (with S.Bradley and G.Leeves),  Labour Economics, 14, 319-334, 2007.

‘Overeducation and the Assimilation of Recently Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Australia’ (with P. Kler and G.Leeves) Economics of Education Review, 26, 420-432.

‘An Investigation of the Magnitude of Educational Disadvantage Amongst Indigeneous and non-Indigenous Minority Groups in Australia’. (with S.Bradley, M.Draca and G. Leeves), Journal of Population Economics (Symposium on Ethnic and Racial Communities), 20(3), 2007.