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Francis Green

@francisgreen1.bsky.social

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Professor of Work and Education Economics at UCL. I write about private schools in Britain and about job quality trends around the world.

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Francis Green @francisgreen1.bsky.social · 10d

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

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"

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Francis Green @francisgreen1.bsky.social · Feb 22

Doing economics and wondering about human capital theory? Here's a fresh critique, explaining why neoclassical economics gets the education-economy nexus wrong.
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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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Francis Green @francisgreen1.bsky.social · Feb 22

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/...

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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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

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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · Jan 29

The battle over private schools.

This week's cover, written by David Kynaston and Francis Green.

Class war

How Labour could win the battle over private education.

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