Francis Green
@francisgreen1.bsky.social
Professor of Work and Education Economics at UCL. I write about private schools in Britain and about job quality trends around the world.
Economics
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Education
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Diluting Exclusivity? The Prevalence and Distribution of Bursaries and Scholarships for Britain's Private Schools
Bursaries and scholarships are sometimes advanced as a mitigating factor for Britain's private schools' social exclusiveness and as a vehicle for social reform.
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Do you wonder if bursaries could mitigate the inequality reproduced through private schooling? See our new preprint for a sobering factual account. Diluting Exclusivity? The Prevalence and Distribution of Bursaries and Scholarships for Britain’s Private Schools. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Just published, our analysis of job quality trends in South Korea. A mixed picture. Our findings question the presumption that social progress tracks economic growth.
Lee, S. and F. Green. 2025. “Job Quality in the Republic of Korea: Progress or Decline?” International Labour Review 164 (3): 1–21.
Lee, S. and F. Green. 2025. “Job Quality in the Republic of Korea: Progress or Decline?” International Labour Review 164 (3): 1–21.
Interesting article in the FT this weekend, for anyone concerned about job quality: "What if working from home was a legal right?". The right to work at home for up to two days is being proposed in Victoria. It's popular.
Francis Green
@francisgreen1.bsky.social
· Sep 13
"Hard At Work", my new book about job quality, can be pre-ordered now from Oxford University Press. It will also be available online free access.
Francis Green
@francisgreen1.bsky.social
· Sep 13
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My new book will be published in the new year:
Hard At Work. Job Quality, Wellbeing and the Global Economy.
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"An authoritative new account of the evolution of job quality in the twenty-first century and how it impacts our health and wellbeing"
Hard At Work. Job Quality, Wellbeing and the Global Economy.
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"An authoritative new account of the evolution of job quality in the twenty-first century and how it impacts our health and wellbeing"
Francis Green
@francisgreen1.bsky.social
· Feb 22
Reformulating the Critique of Human Capital Theory
Despite criticism, human capital theory (HCT) has remained central for six decades to the teaching and practice of economics. This paper reformulates the critique of HCT, focusing on two aspects that...
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Doing economics and wondering about human capital theory? Here's a fresh critique, explaining why neoclassical economics gets the education-economy nexus wrong.
doi.org/10.1111/joes...
doi.org/10.1111/joes...
Francis Green
@francisgreen1.bsky.social
· Feb 22
Work and life: the relative importance of job quality for general well-being, and implications for social surveys
Abstract. We investigate the relative importance of variations in job quality in accounting for variations in general well-being among employed people in E
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Evidence is that the quality of jobs is as important as your physical health for general wellbeing, and far more important than education, gender, marital status, parental status, age, or income -- in Britain, the US, Europe and South Korea. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
Reposted by Francis Green
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Feb 21
It is where you work - not who you are or what you do - that explains most of the variance in non-pecuniary job quality across workers docs.iza.org/dp17724.pdf @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Reposted by Francis Green
Class war
How Labour could win the battle over private education.
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The battle over private schools.
This week's cover, written by David Kynaston and Francis Green.
This week's cover, written by David Kynaston and Francis Green.