Dr Colin Green
B.Econ (Newcastle), Hons, PhD (Qld)
Lecturer
Personal Webpage
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/greencp/
Department
Economics
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
- 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
