Professor of Work and Education Economics at UCL. I write about private schools in Britain and about job quality trends around the world.https://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3m3fbuv2mmk2jDo 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. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=560935117 Oct 2025 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fbuv2mmk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3m3chqpj5sc2nJust 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): 1–21.16 Oct 2025 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3chqpj5sc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3m2gqkfxe5224Interesting 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.05 Oct 2025 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2gqkfxe5224https://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3lypttlz75c2713 Sep 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lypttlz75c27https://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3lypt33qdjs2d"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.13 Sep 2025 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lypt33qdjs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3lypswuuox22dMy new book will be published in the new year: Hard At Work. Job Quality, Wellbeing and the Global Economy. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hard-at-work-9780197692516?cc=gb&lang=en&q=Francis%20Green "An authoritative new account of the evolution of job quality in the twenty-first century and how it impacts our health and wellbeing"13 Sep 2025 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lypswuuox22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3lircchl7a32sDoing economics and wondering about human capital theory? Here's a fresh critique, explaining why neoclassical economics gets the education-economy nexus wrong. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.1267522 Feb 2025 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lircchl7a32shttps://bsky.app/profile/francisgreen1.bsky.social/post/3lirbwun4hd2sEvidence 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae00222 Feb 2025 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:tecjrf7mmo5hokguqsap2ix4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lirbwun4hd2s