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Dr Colin Green

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

Senior Lecturer

Department

Economics

Contact

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

Associate Editor: Education Economics

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

 

Current Teaching

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.

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, performance related pay, educational performance of indigenous minority groups and the impact of group norms on workers' absence behaviour.

Personal website - www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/greencp

 

 

Publications

  • Green Colin, Bender Keith and Heywood John, 2012, 'Piece rates and workplace injury: does survey evidence support Adam Smith?', Journal of Population Economics
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  • Green Colin and Heywood John, 2011, 'Profit sharing, separation and training', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol 49, no. 4, pp. 623-642.
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  • Green Colin and Heywood J S, 2011, 'Flexible contracts and subjective well-being', Economic Inquiry, vol 49, no. 3, pp. 716-729.
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  • Navarro Paniagua Maria and Green Colin, 2011, 'Does raising the school leaving age reduce teacher effort?: Evidence from a Policy Experiment', Economic Inquiry
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  • Green Colin and Heywood J S, 2010, 'Profit sharing and the quality of relations with the boss', Labour Economics, vol 17, no. 5, pp. 859-867.
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  • Green Colin, Kler P and Leeves G, 2010, 'Flexible workers in inferior jobs: re-appraising the evidence', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol 48, no. 3, pp. 605-629.
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  • Green Colin and Heywood J S, 2008, 'Does performance pay increase job satisfaction?', Economica, vol 75, pp. 710-728.
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  • Bradley S, Green Colin, Draca M and Leeves G, 2007, 'The magnitude of educational disadvantage of indigenous minority groups in Australia', Journal of Population Economics, vol 20, no. 3, pp. 547-569.
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  • Green Colin, Kler P and Leeves G, 2007, 'Immigrant overeducation: evidence from recent arrivals to Australia', Economics of Education Review, vol 26, no. 4, pp. 420-432.
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