Results

Journal article

Economica:

The changing economic advantage from private schools

Private schooling is an important feature of education systems across the world. Despite its relatively small size, the British private school sector has a long history and plays a prominent role in society. We provide e...Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Changing Economic Advantage From Private School

Despite its relatively small size, the private school sector plays a prominent role in British society. This paper focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and state educated indivi...Read more...

CentrePiece article

A century of minimum wages in Britain

Simon Deakin and Francis Green trace the history from the trade boards first enacted in October 1909 to today's National Minimum Wage....Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Competition for private and state school teachers

Read more...

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper

Overqualification, Job Dissatisfaction and Increasing Dispersion in the Returns to Graduate Education

Increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education is found, using quantile regression. This trend is related to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of ?Real? and ?Formal? overq...Read more...

Journal article

Journal of Education and Work:

Competition for private and state school teachers

We analyse the role of private schools in the teachers? labour market. Private schools employ an increasingly‐disproportionate share of teachers in Britain, relative to the number of their pupils. Their teachers ar...Read more...

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper

Leeway for the Loyal: A Model of Employee Discretion

This paper examines the factors underlying task discretion from an economist?s perspective. It argues that the key axis for understanding discretion is the trade-off between the positive effects of discretion on potentia...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Working on the Chain Gang? An Examination of Rising Effort Levels in Europe in the 1990s

This paper presents evidence that, across many European countries, the 1990s have witnessed an intensification of labour effort, and investigates explanations for this process. Using data drawn from The European Survey o...Read more...

CentrePiece article

Overeducation: a tough nut to crack

Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Computers are even more important than you thought: An Analysis of the changing skill-intensity of jobs

We investigate the impact of computer usage at work and other job features on the changing skills required of workers. We compare skills utilisation in Britain at three data points: 1986, 1992 and 1997, using responses t...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Overeducation and Skills - Clarifying the Concepts

There is now a burgeoning literature on the topic of 'overeducation' (and the complementary concept of 'undereducation'), and a growing quantity of UK empirical evidence on this issue. However, as Joop Hartog indicat...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Skill, Training, Organisational Commitment and Unemployment: The Economics of a Labour Strategy Management

This paper argues that trainging often has a wider role than just the acquisition of technical skills and that company training ought to be analysed as part of a broader labour management strategy for companies. Evidence...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Trade Unions and Training Practices in British Workplaces

We use establishment-level data from the 1991 Employers Manpower and Skills Practices Survey (EMSPS) and individual-level data from the Autumn 1993 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) to investigate the links between tr...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

The Employer Size-Wage Effect: Is Monopsony the Explanation?

This paper looks at evidence on the employer size-wage effect for the UK using data from the General Household Survey, British Social Attitudes Survey and the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. We find that much larg...Read more...