Dr. Colin Green

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

 

`Don’t Forget the Gravy! Are Bonuses and Time Rates Complements?’ (with J.S.Heywood)

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

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

New Estimates of the Effect of Temporary Employment on Absenteeism’ (with I. Garcia and M. Navarro Paniagua)

Performance Pay and Ethnic Wage Differences in Britain’ (with J.S.Heywood and N.Theodoropolous’)

 

Selected Recent Publications

`"Employment Protection, Threat and Incentive Effects on Worker Absence’ (with S. Bradley and G.Leeves), British Journal of Industrial Relations, (forthcoming)

`Does Raising the School Leaving Age Reduce Teacher Effort? Evidence From a Policy Experiment’ (with M. Navarro Paniagua), Economic Inquiry, Economic Inquiry, 50, 1018-1030.

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.

 

 

Reader

Department of Economics

Lancaster University

Phone:

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

 

 

Other Websites

 

Economics Department

Education Economics

IWAEE

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