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Job insecurity and wage outcomes in Britain
Campbell, David; Carruth, Alan A.; Dickerson, Andrew P.; … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In 1996 and 1997, approximately 1 in 10 British workers thought that it was either likely or very likely that they would lose their job within 12 months. Increased job insecurity has been touted as a possible cause for the decline of equilibrium unemployment in Britain and the United States...
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An analysis of subjective views of job insecurity
Green, Francis; Dickerson, Andrew P.; Carruth, Alan A.; … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In the 1997 and 1998 waves of the British Household Panel Survey, workers are asked to assess their level of job security in terms of the probability of becoming unemployed within the next year. We examine whether these perceptions of insecurity are purely subjective or are systematically...
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The value of skills
Green, Francis - 1998
Many commentators have argued that "key skills" are becoming more important in modern workplaces. This paper draws on a survey that uses a methodology based on job analysis to measure skills at work, and estimates their implicit prices using a hedonic wage equation. The main new findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529739
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The Impact of Training on Labour
Felstead, Alan; Green, Francis; Pack, Alan; Mayhew, Ken - 2001
We investigate the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using three surveys …, training has no impact on mobility in three out of every five cases; the remaining cases are split equally between those where … training increases and those where it decreases mobility. We find that training is more likely to lead to lower mobility when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153436
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Dreaming big? : self-valuations, aspirations, networks and the private-school earnings premium
Green, Francis; Parsons, Samantha; Sullivan, Alice; … - In: Cambridge journal of economics 42 (2018) 3, pp. 757-778
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050903
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Can the changing nature of jobs account for national trends in job satisfaction?
Green, Francis (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
mobility ; panel data ; Germany; Britain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002090324
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The changing economic advantage from private school
Green, Francis; Machin, Stephen; Murphy, Richard; Zhu, Yu - 2010
inequality. -- Returns to education ; private schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979896
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The growth and valuation of generic skills
Dickerson, Andrew P. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 and 2001 there was a growth in Britain in the utilisation of computing skills, literacy, numeracy, technical know-how, high-level communication skills, planning skills, client...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001689538
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The long term pay-off from working longer hours
Campbell, David (contributor); Green, Francis (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
for men. These findings are consistent with the possibility that increasing UK wage inequality is associated with an … upward impact on work hours. -- long hours ; wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001689541
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The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School
Green, Francis - 2010
inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141431