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Dr Colin Green

B.Econ (Newcastle), Hons, PhD (Qld)

Lecturer

Personal Webpage

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/greencp/

Department

Economics

Contact

Room: B10
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594667
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 594244
Email:

Office Hours

15:00-16:00 Tuesdays

Organisational Roles

Economics Department Internal Seminar Co-ordinator

External Roles

Organiser: International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE)

14th-15th June 2010, Catanzaro, Italy

Teaching

Econ 224 Introduction to Economics for Managers

Econ 327 Human Resource Economics

Research Interests

Education, Labour and Personnel Economics.

Current Research

My current research areas include performance related pay and worker wellbeing/wages, worker absenteeism and labour supply decisions, education and risk, and flexible employment contracts.

Research Grants

Nuffield Grant - "Has the Specialist Schools Initiative Improved Student Outcomes" (with S. Bradley and J.Taylor).

Lancaster University Small Grant - "Job Satisfaction and Performance Related Pay in Europe"

Profile

Colin Green joined the Economics Department in July 2007. He holds a research lectureship in education economics funded by the Bowland Trust. He has published a number of papers covering areas such as flexible employment contracts, job satisfaction and performance pay, educational performance of indigenous minority groups and the impact of group norms on workers' absence behaviour.

Selected publications (6)
View all publications (21)
Journal/Serial (11)
Working Paper (10)

Selected Publications

  • Green C, Kler P and Leeves G, forthcoming, 'Flexible workers in inferior jobs: re-appraising the evidence', British Journal of Industrial Relations
  • Green C and Heywood JS, forthcoming, 'Flexible contracts and subjective well-being', Economic Inquiry
  • Bradley S, Green C and Leeves G, 2008, 'Worker absence and shirking: evidence from matched teacher-school data', Labour Economics, vol 14(3), pp 319-334
  • Green C and Heywood JS, 2008, 'Does performance pay increase job satisfaction?', Economica, vol 75, pp 710-728
  • Bradley S, Draca M, Green C and Leeves G, 2007, 'The magnitude of educational disadvantage of indigenous minority groups in Australia', Journal of Population Economics, vol 20(3), pp 547-569
  • Green C, Kler P and Leeves G, 2007, 'Immigrant overeducation: evidence from recent arrivals to Australia', Economics of Education Review, vol 26(4), pp 420-432

Call for Papers

International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education

The International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, jointly organised by the Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School and Università Magna Graecia, takes place at Catanzaro, Italy on 14th and 15th June 2010. The closing date for papers is 1st March 2010.

Current doctoral students

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