• Long-Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarisation: Evidence from German Micro Data 

      Bachmann, Ronald; Cim, Merve; Green, Colin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large‐scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described ...
    • Paradox Lost: The Disappearing Female Job Satisfaction Premium 

      Green, Colin; Heywood, John S.; Kler, Parvinder; Leeves, Gareth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Using the original data source of Clark, we show that over the last two decades the female satisfaction gap he documented has vanished. This reflects a strong secular decline in female job satisfaction. This decline happened ...
    • Trade unions and the well-being of workers 

      Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Green, Colin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Using data on nearly 2 million respondents from the United States and Europe, we show the partial correlation between union membership and employee job satisfaction is positive and statistically significant. This runs ...
    • Unions, collective agreements and productivity: A firm‐level analysis using Norwegian matched employer–employee panel data 

      Svarstad, Elin; Kostøl, Fredrik Bakkemo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      What is the role of collective agreements in explaining how unions affect firm-level productivity? Using matched employer–employee panel data for the Norwegian labour market, comprising almost 21 million individual-year ...
    • Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK 

      Farina, Egidio; Green, Colin Peter; McVicar, Duncan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article examines associations between precarious contract types and a range of self-reported health measures for the UK. We focus on zero hours contracts (ZHCs), an extreme form of precarious employment that has grown ...
    • Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth 

      Farina, Egidio; Green, Colin; McVicar, Duncan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This article studies the prevalence and nature of zero hours contracts (ZHCs) in the UK labour market. It is widely argued that the headline count of ZHC workers based on the Labour Force Survey historically underestimated ...