Nick Adnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4382454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Adnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Adnett |
| SIGNATURE | ADNETT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Staffordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Determinants of the Employment Status of Return Migrants in Albania
Return migration may be associated with the addition of new human capital, entrepreneurial skills and investment funds in the country of origin. The size of these stimuli will likely depend upon the characteristics of the return migrants and the motivation for their return. This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of the probability of Albanian return migrants being in employment. This study examines the role of the socio-demographic c…
The growth of international students and economic development: Friends or foes
In recent years there has been a significant growth in the number of international students. In several developed countries the inflow of foreign tertiary students has become a significant source of income for higher education (HE) providers and the economy as a whole. This net inflow of foreign students has been indirectly and, more recently, directly encouraged by government policies in these countries. However, this ‘trade’ in HE is unbalanced…
Increasing within‐school competition: A case for department level performance indicators
The authors investigate the size and stability of departmental effects in English secondary schooling during a period in which extensions to parental choice and annual publication of school performance tables had significantly increased competitive pressures on schools. Their database of nearly 450 English secondary schools enables them to investigate departments in terms of both their unadjusted and value‐added average students’ performance in n…
Competition, cream‐skimming and department performance within secondary schools1
The performance of departments has been largely neglected in previous studies of subject choice in secondary schools. This is a significant omission because analysis at departmental level enables a fuller assessment of the effects of competition and specialisation on pupil performance. This paper examines relationships between both absolute and value‐added measures of departmental performance and the likelihood of students being entered for exami…
English Universities, Additional Fee Income and Access Agreements: Their Impact on Widening Participation and Fair Access
This paper argues that the introduction of access agreements following the establishment of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has consolidated how English higher education institutions (HEIs) position themselves in the marketplace in relation to widening participation. However, the absence of a national bursary scheme has led to obfuscation rather than clarification from the perspective of the consumer. This paper analyses OFFA's 2008 monitoring …
Should we have faith in not‐for‐profit providers of schooling
Western governments appear increasingly dissatisfied with the rising costs and apparent static performance of their education systems. This dissatisfaction has been manifested in a critical re‐examination of the near‐monopoly of publicly provided schooling. Elsewhere in the public sector, privatization and competitive tendering have been frequently used to reduce costs and raise productivity. However, in education the inability to fully specify c…
Are secondary schools spending enough on books
Evidence is provided to illustrate that the current level of spending on books by English secondary schools is low with regard to maintaining existing book stocks and that parental expenditure is not making up the shortfall. An analysis of the inspection regime suggests a tendency to emphasise information and communications technology (ICT) to the relative neglect of books. The authors also provide an empirical study at school level of the respec…
Private‐sector provision of schooling: An economic assessment
In many countries the school choice agenda has promoted increased inter‐school competition as a means of creating stronger incentives for state schools to raise measures of average pupil attainment. Privatization of the provision of schooling takes market‐based reforms a stage further. We identify the factors that have increased governments' concern with educational outcomes and why these concerns have led to greater interest in privatization. Th…
Schooling reforms in England: From quasi-markets to co-opetition
Greater competition in schooling markets seems to promote higher levels of academic attainment, but so does increased co-operation within and between schools. School choice reforms have a tendency to reinforce local schooling hierarchies and increase differences in the mean pupils' academic attainment between schools. In England, the processes causing these effects have been strengthened by the introduction of school performance tables. Beacon Sc…
Encouraging Cream-Skimming and Dreg-Siphoning? Increasing Competition between English HEIs
We examine the impact of recent policy on the nature of competition within English higher education (HE) for students. Revisions made to the method of allocating Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) teaching funds and the introduction of performance monitoring and targeted recruitment premiums have changed the incentives facing higher education institutions (HEI)s when designing recruitment strategies. We consider the extent to wh…
The Parental Leave Directive: Towards a `Family-Friendly' Social Europe?
The employment and social policies of the European Union currently seek to promote equal opportunities while targeting further significant increases in female employment rates. This article evaluates its `work-life balance' regulations, particularly the Parental Leave Directive, analysing their origins and rationale. We assess the social, economic and legal implications and identify differing national strategies for implementation. In conclusion,…
Education as a Positional Good: Implications for Market-Based Reforms of State Schooling
Analyses of market-based reforms of state schooling have occasionally acknowledged positional elements in parental demand, but none has fully examined their nature and implications. Contrary to the normal predictions of orthodox economic analysis, competition in positional markets can result in inefficient outcomes. Predominantly relying upon recent British experience, we examine the extent to which compulsory schooling can be viewed as a positio…
Modernizing the European Social Model: Developing the Guidelines
Competition and curriculum diversity in local schooling markets: Theory and evidence
Amongst the factors, which have motivated market-based reforms of state schooling was a desire to increase choice and diversity. It has been claimed, on the basis of conventional economic analysis, that increasing competitive pressures on schools would promote greater curriculum innovation and diversity. We critically assess both the economic rationale and empirical support for this proposition, concentrating largely upon UK experience. Our analy…
Entrepreneurial Freedom Versus Employee Rights’: The Acquired Rights Directive and EU Social Policy Post-Amsterdam
In attempting to reconcile the objectives of both employment security and labour market flexibility, the 1977 Acquired Rights Directive (ARD) represents the type of social legislation championed in the Treaty of Amsterdam. This article discusses the 20-year history of this Directive in order to examine some of the problems which arise when policy is driven by economic and social objectives which may be mutually inconsistent. In particular, we con…
Schooling Quasi-Markets: Reconciling Economic and Sociological Analyses
We provide an economic assessment of the operation of schooling quasi-markets, re-interpreting the findings of the mainly sociologically-based empirical research. We find that economic analysis is complementary to that of sociology, providing further explanations for the failure of greater competition to increase the diversity of provision and challenge traditional school hierarchies. Keywords:: quasi-marketschoiceefficiency
The impact of Tupe on compulsory competitive tendering: Evidence from employers
The transposing of the 1977 Acquired Rights Directive into UK law has resulted in prolonged uncertainty regarding whether its protection of terms and conditions of employment extends to workers transferred under compulsory competitive tendering (CCT). In this paper we examine briefly the origins and scope of the directive and the development of relevant case law. We then report the results of a survey of employers confirming the existence of wide…
Social Dumping and European Economic Integration
Social dumping has become an important EU issue, yet few studies provide an economic assessment of the potential size of such effects. This paper examines the prospects for social dumping in an era of greater European econ omic integration. Initially the paper docu ments large differences within the E U in the composition of labour costs and labour market regulations, thereby establisbing the potential for social dumping effects. It then consider…
English Universities, Additional Fee Income and Access Agreements: Their Impact on Widening Participation and Fair Access
This paper argues that the introduction of access agreements following the establishment of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has consolidated how English higher education institutions (HEIs) position themselves in the marketplace in relation to widening participation. However, the absence of a national bursary scheme has led to obfuscation rather than clarification from the perspective of the consumer. This paper analyses OFFA's 2008 monitoring …
Modernizing the European Social Model: Developing the Guidelines
Competition and curriculum diversity in local schooling markets: Theory and evidence
Amongst the factors, which have motivated market-based reforms of state schooling was a desire to increase choice and diversity. It has been claimed, on the basis of conventional economic analysis, that increasing competitive pressures on schools would promote greater curriculum innovation and diversity. We critically assess both the economic rationale and empirical support for this proposition, concentrating largely upon UK experience. Our analy…
Education as a Positional Good: Implications for Market-Based Reforms of State Schooling
Analyses of market-based reforms of state schooling have occasionally acknowledged positional elements in parental demand, but none has fully examined their nature and implications. Contrary to the normal predictions of orthodox economic analysis, competition in positional markets can result in inefficient outcomes. Predominantly relying upon recent British experience, we examine the extent to which compulsory schooling can be viewed as a positio…
The growth of international students and economic development: Friends or foes
In recent years there has been a significant growth in the number of international students. In several developed countries the inflow of foreign tertiary students has become a significant source of income for higher education (HE) providers and the economy as a whole. This net inflow of foreign students has been indirectly and, more recently, directly encouraged by government policies in these countries. However, this ‘trade’ in HE is unbalanced…
Private‐sector provision of schooling: An economic assessment
In many countries the school choice agenda has promoted increased inter‐school competition as a means of creating stronger incentives for state schools to raise measures of average pupil attainment. Privatization of the provision of schooling takes market‐based reforms a stage further. We identify the factors that have increased governments' concern with educational outcomes and why these concerns have led to greater interest in privatization. Th…
Schooling reforms in England: From quasi-markets to co-opetition
Greater competition in schooling markets seems to promote higher levels of academic attainment, but so does increased co-operation within and between schools. School choice reforms have a tendency to reinforce local schooling hierarchies and increase differences in the mean pupils' academic attainment between schools. In England, the processes causing these effects have been strengthened by the introduction of school performance tables. Beacon Sc…
Schooling Quasi-Markets: Reconciling Economic and Sociological Analyses
We provide an economic assessment of the operation of schooling quasi-markets, re-interpreting the findings of the mainly sociologically-based empirical research. We find that economic analysis is complementary to that of sociology, providing further explanations for the failure of greater competition to increase the diversity of provision and challenge traditional school hierarchies. Keywords:: quasi-marketschoiceefficiency
Social Dumping and European Economic Integration
Social dumping has become an important EU issue, yet few studies provide an economic assessment of the potential size of such effects. This paper examines the prospects for social dumping in an era of greater European econ omic integration. Initially the paper docu ments large differences within the E U in the composition of labour costs and labour market regulations, thereby establisbing the potential for social dumping effects. It then consider…
Should we have faith in not‐for‐profit providers of schooling
Western governments appear increasingly dissatisfied with the rising costs and apparent static performance of their education systems. This dissatisfaction has been manifested in a critical re‐examination of the near‐monopoly of publicly provided schooling. Elsewhere in the public sector, privatization and competitive tendering have been frequently used to reduce costs and raise productivity. However, in education the inability to fully specify c…
Encouraging Cream-Skimming and Dreg-Siphoning? Increasing Competition between English HEIs
We examine the impact of recent policy on the nature of competition within English higher education (HE) for students. Revisions made to the method of allocating Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) teaching funds and the introduction of performance monitoring and targeted recruitment premiums have changed the incentives facing higher education institutions (HEI)s when designing recruitment strategies. We consider the extent to wh…
Increasing within‐school competition: A case for department level performance indicators
The authors investigate the size and stability of departmental effects in English secondary schooling during a period in which extensions to parental choice and annual publication of school performance tables had significantly increased competitive pressures on schools. Their database of nearly 450 English secondary schools enables them to investigate departments in terms of both their unadjusted and value‐added average students’ performance in n…
Competition, cream‐skimming and department performance within secondary schools1
The performance of departments has been largely neglected in previous studies of subject choice in secondary schools. This is a significant omission because analysis at departmental level enables a fuller assessment of the effects of competition and specialisation on pupil performance. This paper examines relationships between both absolute and value‐added measures of departmental performance and the likelihood of students being entered for exami…
Are secondary schools spending enough on books
Evidence is provided to illustrate that the current level of spending on books by English secondary schools is low with regard to maintaining existing book stocks and that parental expenditure is not making up the shortfall. An analysis of the inspection regime suggests a tendency to emphasise information and communications technology (ICT) to the relative neglect of books. The authors also provide an empirical study at school level of the respec…
Social Dumping and European Economic Integration
Social dumping has become an important EU issue, yet few studies provide an economic assessment of the potential size of such effects. This paper examines the prospects for social dumping in an era of greater European econ omic integration. Initially the paper docu ments large differences within the E U in the composition of labour costs and labour market regulations, thereby establisbing the potential for social dumping effects. It then consider…
The impact of Tupe on compulsory competitive tendering: Evidence from employers
The transposing of the 1977 Acquired Rights Directive into UK law has resulted in prolonged uncertainty regarding whether its protection of terms and conditions of employment extends to workers transferred under compulsory competitive tendering (CCT). In this paper we examine briefly the origins and scope of the directive and the development of relevant case law. We then report the results of a survey of employers confirming the existence of wide…
Entrepreneurial Freedom Versus Employee Rights’: The Acquired Rights Directive and EU Social Policy Post-Amsterdam
In attempting to reconcile the objectives of both employment security and labour market flexibility, the 1977 Acquired Rights Directive (ARD) represents the type of social legislation championed in the Treaty of Amsterdam. This article discusses the 20-year history of this Directive in order to examine some of the problems which arise when policy is driven by economic and social objectives which may be mutually inconsistent. In particular, we con…
Schooling Quasi-Markets: Reconciling Economic and Sociological Analyses
We provide an economic assessment of the operation of schooling quasi-markets, re-interpreting the findings of the mainly sociologically-based empirical research. We find that economic analysis is complementary to that of sociology, providing further explanations for the failure of greater competition to increase the diversity of provision and challenge traditional school hierarchies. Keywords:: quasi-marketschoiceefficiency
Competition and curriculum diversity in local schooling markets: Theory and evidence
Amongst the factors, which have motivated market-based reforms of state schooling was a desire to increase choice and diversity. It has been claimed, on the basis of conventional economic analysis, that increasing competitive pressures on schools would promote greater curriculum innovation and diversity. We critically assess both the economic rationale and empirical support for this proposition, concentrating largely upon UK experience. Our analy…
Modernizing the European Social Model: Developing the Guidelines
The Parental Leave Directive: Towards a `Family-Friendly' Social Europe?
The employment and social policies of the European Union currently seek to promote equal opportunities while targeting further significant increases in female employment rates. This article evaluates its `work-life balance' regulations, particularly the Parental Leave Directive, analysing their origins and rationale. We assess the social, economic and legal implications and identify differing national strategies for implementation. In conclusion,…
Education as a Positional Good: Implications for Market-Based Reforms of State Schooling
Analyses of market-based reforms of state schooling have occasionally acknowledged positional elements in parental demand, but none has fully examined their nature and implications. Contrary to the normal predictions of orthodox economic analysis, competition in positional markets can result in inefficient outcomes. Predominantly relying upon recent British experience, we examine the extent to which compulsory schooling can be viewed as a positio…
Schooling reforms in England: From quasi-markets to co-opetition
Greater competition in schooling markets seems to promote higher levels of academic attainment, but so does increased co-operation within and between schools. School choice reforms have a tendency to reinforce local schooling hierarchies and increase differences in the mean pupils' academic attainment between schools. In England, the processes causing these effects have been strengthened by the introduction of school performance tables. Beacon Sc…
Encouraging Cream-Skimming and Dreg-Siphoning? Increasing Competition between English HEIs
We examine the impact of recent policy on the nature of competition within English higher education (HE) for students. Revisions made to the method of allocating Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) teaching funds and the introduction of performance monitoring and targeted recruitment premiums have changed the incentives facing higher education institutions (HEI)s when designing recruitment strategies. We consider the extent to wh…
Private‐sector provision of schooling: An economic assessment
In many countries the school choice agenda has promoted increased inter‐school competition as a means of creating stronger incentives for state schools to raise measures of average pupil attainment. Privatization of the provision of schooling takes market‐based reforms a stage further. We identify the factors that have increased governments' concern with educational outcomes and why these concerns have led to greater interest in privatization. Th…
Are secondary schools spending enough on books
Evidence is provided to illustrate that the current level of spending on books by English secondary schools is low with regard to maintaining existing book stocks and that parental expenditure is not making up the shortfall. An analysis of the inspection regime suggests a tendency to emphasise information and communications technology (ICT) to the relative neglect of books. The authors also provide an empirical study at school level of the respec…
Should we have faith in not‐for‐profit providers of schooling
Western governments appear increasingly dissatisfied with the rising costs and apparent static performance of their education systems. This dissatisfaction has been manifested in a critical re‐examination of the near‐monopoly of publicly provided schooling. Elsewhere in the public sector, privatization and competitive tendering have been frequently used to reduce costs and raise productivity. However, in education the inability to fully specify c…
Increasing within‐school competition: A case for department level performance indicators
The authors investigate the size and stability of departmental effects in English secondary schooling during a period in which extensions to parental choice and annual publication of school performance tables had significantly increased competitive pressures on schools. Their database of nearly 450 English secondary schools enables them to investigate departments in terms of both their unadjusted and value‐added average students’ performance in n…
Competition, cream‐skimming and department performance within secondary schools1
The performance of departments has been largely neglected in previous studies of subject choice in secondary schools. This is a significant omission because analysis at departmental level enables a fuller assessment of the effects of competition and specialisation on pupil performance. This paper examines relationships between both absolute and value‐added measures of departmental performance and the likelihood of students being entered for exami…
English Universities, Additional Fee Income and Access Agreements: Their Impact on Widening Participation and Fair Access
This paper argues that the introduction of access agreements following the establishment of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has consolidated how English higher education institutions (HEIs) position themselves in the marketplace in relation to widening participation. However, the absence of a national bursary scheme has led to obfuscation rather than clarification from the perspective of the consumer. This paper analyses OFFA's 2008 monitoring …
The growth of international students and economic development: Friends or foes
In recent years there has been a significant growth in the number of international students. In several developed countries the inflow of foreign tertiary students has become a significant source of income for higher education (HE) providers and the economy as a whole. This net inflow of foreign students has been indirectly and, more recently, directly encouraged by government policies in these countries. However, this ‘trade’ in HE is unbalanced…
The Determinants of the Employment Status of Return Migrants in Albania
Return migration may be associated with the addition of new human capital, entrepreneurial skills and investment funds in the country of origin. The size of these stimuli will likely depend upon the characteristics of the return migrants and the motivation for their return. This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of the probability of Albanian return migrants being in employment. This study examines the role of the socio-demographic c…
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