Steven Mcintosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3714067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Mcintosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcintosh |
| SIGNATURE | MCINTOSH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9492-5455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nuclear Liability and Post-Fukushima Developments
The international community has developed a series of conventions on civil liability for nuclear damage, which aim to ensure compensation is available for damage, including transboundary damage, caused by a nuclear incident. Those conventions have struggled to gain universal adherence, and the “global regime” called for in 2011 is at best a patchwork quilt, with a number of treaties with differing memberships, and many States (including States wi…
Variation in the labour market rewards to vocational qualifications in the UK
We use UK Labour Force Survey data to estimate wage differentials associated with the attainment of vocational qualifications, relative to comparison groups qualified to at best one level below. Our main aim is to show the variation in the size of such differentials, according to the unobserved characteristics of the individual, via quantile regression and also according to the characteristics of the qualifications themselves, in terms of the lev…
Does the Increase in Competition between Schools Improve the Quality of the Service? The Role of Educational Reform in Chile
We analyse the effect of geographic competition between schools on academic performance in Chile. The analysis controls for prior pupil performance, and a range of school and municipality characteristics. We allow for the endogeneity of voucher school location, using the number of local Catholic churches as an instrument. We find that a larger number of public schools positively affects the quality of education of other schools located in the sam…
The Impact of Distance to Nearest Education Institution on the Post-compulsory Education Participation Decision
This paper uses data sources from England with the unique capacity to measure distances between home addresses and education institutions, to investigate, for the first time, the effect that such distance has on an individual’s post-compulsory education participation decision. The results show that there is a small overall effect. However, when attention is focused on young people who are on the margin of participating in post-compulsory educatio…
Is there a genuine under-utilization of skills amongst the over-qualified?
Two theories of over-qualification are considered, namely mismatch, whereby workers do not find the most appropriate jobs for their skills, because of imperfect information or labour market rigidities, and ‘heterogeneous workers’, whereby individuals with the same qualifications have different actual skill levels, so that they can be over-qualified in terms of formal qualifications, while their skills are actually appropriate for the jobs that th…
Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s
This paper examines the market for teachers in the UK from 1960 to 2002 using six graduate cohort data‐sets. We find that, while there is no strong evidence that teachers are underpaid, the relative wages in teaching compared with alternative professions have a significant impact on the likelihood of graduates choosing to teach. This wage effect is strongest at times of low relative teachers' wages, or following a period of decline in those wages…
Skills in the UK
The UK has more adults with poor basic skills of literacy and numeracy than many countries in Europe. Younger cohorts of adults in the UK perform no better (literacy) or even worse (numeracy) than older cohorts, which suggests that the UK labour force is not replenishing itself with more skilled workers, contrary to the situation in many European countries. Those who do have good literacy and numeracy skills in the UK enjoy a substantial wage pre…
Public and Private Sector Labour Markets
Average pay is higher in the public sector than in the private sector, although the difference has shrunk over the last 25 years. The distribution of pay is narrower in the public sector than in the private sector. The public-private sector pay differential is higher for women than for men. In recent years, private sector pay in professional occupations has overtaken public sector pay in these occupations, particularly for men. The public-private…
Union Power, Cost of Job Loss, and Workers' Effort
The authors hypothesize that the effectiveness of external threats in raising workers' effort is mediated by, among other labor market conditions, the presence or absence of a powerful union. In particular, they argue that because powerful unions reduce the potency of the external threat of job loss (by making it more difficult for employers to dismiss workers), the pace of work is less responsive to such a threat in strongly unionized plants tha…
The Impact of Distance to Nearest Education Institution on the Post-compulsory Education Participation Decision
This paper uses data sources from England with the unique capacity to measure distances between home addresses and education institutions, to investigate, for the first time, the effect that such distance has on an individual’s post-compulsory education participation decision. The results show that there is a small overall effect. However, when attention is focused on young people who are on the margin of participating in post-compulsory educatio…
Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s
This paper examines the market for teachers in the UK from 1960 to 2002 using six graduate cohort data‐sets. We find that, while there is no strong evidence that teachers are underpaid, the relative wages in teaching compared with alternative professions have a significant impact on the likelihood of graduates choosing to teach. This wage effect is strongest at times of low relative teachers' wages, or following a period of decline in those wages…
Union Power, Cost of Job Loss, and Workers' Effort
The authors hypothesize that the effectiveness of external threats in raising workers' effort is mediated by, among other labor market conditions, the presence or absence of a powerful union. In particular, they argue that because powerful unions reduce the potency of the external threat of job loss (by making it more difficult for employers to dismiss workers), the pace of work is less responsive to such a threat in strongly unionized plants tha…
Union Power, Cost of Job Loss, and Workers' Effort
The authors hypothesize that the effectiveness of external threats in raising workers' effort is mediated by, among other labor market conditions, the presence or absence of a powerful union. In particular, they argue that because powerful unions reduce the potency of the external threat of job loss (by making it more difficult for employers to dismiss workers), the pace of work is less responsive to such a threat in strongly unionized plants tha…
Skills in the UK
The UK has more adults with poor basic skills of literacy and numeracy than many countries in Europe. Younger cohorts of adults in the UK perform no better (literacy) or even worse (numeracy) than older cohorts, which suggests that the UK labour force is not replenishing itself with more skilled workers, contrary to the situation in many European countries. Those who do have good literacy and numeracy skills in the UK enjoy a substantial wage pre…
Public and Private Sector Labour Markets
Average pay is higher in the public sector than in the private sector, although the difference has shrunk over the last 25 years. The distribution of pay is narrower in the public sector than in the private sector. The public-private sector pay differential is higher for women than for men. In recent years, private sector pay in professional occupations has overtaken public sector pay in these occupations, particularly for men. The public-private…
Is there a genuine under-utilization of skills amongst the over-qualified?
Two theories of over-qualification are considered, namely mismatch, whereby workers do not find the most appropriate jobs for their skills, because of imperfect information or labour market rigidities, and ‘heterogeneous workers’, whereby individuals with the same qualifications have different actual skill levels, so that they can be over-qualified in terms of formal qualifications, while their skills are actually appropriate for the jobs that th…
Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s
This paper examines the market for teachers in the UK from 1960 to 2002 using six graduate cohort data‐sets. We find that, while there is no strong evidence that teachers are underpaid, the relative wages in teaching compared with alternative professions have a significant impact on the likelihood of graduates choosing to teach. This wage effect is strongest at times of low relative teachers' wages, or following a period of decline in those wages…
The Impact of Distance to Nearest Education Institution on the Post-compulsory Education Participation Decision
This paper uses data sources from England with the unique capacity to measure distances between home addresses and education institutions, to investigate, for the first time, the effect that such distance has on an individual’s post-compulsory education participation decision. The results show that there is a small overall effect. However, when attention is focused on young people who are on the margin of participating in post-compulsory educatio…
Does the Increase in Competition between Schools Improve the Quality of the Service? The Role of Educational Reform in Chile
We analyse the effect of geographic competition between schools on academic performance in Chile. The analysis controls for prior pupil performance, and a range of school and municipality characteristics. We allow for the endogeneity of voucher school location, using the number of local Catholic churches as an instrument. We find that a larger number of public schools positively affects the quality of education of other schools located in the sam…
Variation in the labour market rewards to vocational qualifications in the UK
We use UK Labour Force Survey data to estimate wage differentials associated with the attainment of vocational qualifications, relative to comparison groups qualified to at best one level below. Our main aim is to show the variation in the size of such differentials, according to the unobserved characteristics of the individual, via quantile regression and also according to the characteristics of the qualifications themselves, in terms of the lev…
Nuclear Liability and Post-Fukushima Developments
The international community has developed a series of conventions on civil liability for nuclear damage, which aim to ensure compensation is available for damage, including transboundary damage, caused by a nuclear incident. Those conventions have struggled to gain universal adherence, and the “global regime” called for in 2011 is at best a patchwork quilt, with a number of treaties with differing memberships, and many States (including States wi…
Economics (7 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (3 works) · School Choice and Performance (3 works)