Robert I Webb

Biographic Data

ID5812482
NAMERobert I Webb
GIVEN NAMESRobert I
FAMILY NAMEWebb
SIGNATUREWEBB R I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Stirling
ORCID0000-0003-1714-5778
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Harnessing market mechanisms for greenhouse gas reduction

    Open AccessWonhee You, Doojin Ryu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Impact Assessment…2025

  • Performance evaluation in teaching

    Open AccessSteve Cook, Duncan Watson et al.ARTICLEStudies In Educational Evaluation2024

    Numerous studies have highlighted the significant role of Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) as a key metric for assessing teaching quality in Higher Education (HE). Building upon these insights, our study introduces an innovative four-tiered model, derived from diverse research, to examine the reliability of SETs. This model addresses biases associated with SETs, delving into both statistical anomalies and cognitive biases, with particular e…

  • Student (dis)satisfaction in UK higher education

    Open AccessDavid Watson, Robert I Webb et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2024

    This study investigates the impact of teaching-only contracts on student satisfaction in UK Higher Education, with a focus on esteem uncertainty through the lens of asset specificity. Utilising an institutional-level student dissatisfaction index, we analyse the combined effects of teaching-only contracts, faculty compensation and research intensity. The findings suggest that while teaching-only contracts can enhance student satisfaction by encou…

  • Student dissatisfaction in Higher Education

    Open AccessSteve Cook, Duncan Watson et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2024

    The revamp of the National Student Survey (NSS) has led to the elimination of the final 'overall satisfaction' question for Higher Education Institutions in England.This paper develops an index approach that can effectively summarise student satisfaction, utilising a 'fuzzy poverty' methodology that assigns weights to dissatisfaction outcomes based on their correlation levels.We show how our dissatisfaction index enables a comprehensive sector-le…

  • Price adjustment in the London housing market

    Open AccessRobert Webb, Robert I Webb et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2021Cited by: 2References: 48

    Recent research into the dynamic adjustment of prices within the London housing market is extended via the application of a novel two-step procedure. Combining the non-parametric analysis of the ranking distributions of the levels and changes in house prices with the application of a cross-sectional convergence technique results in the detection of a three-tier system in which highly significant convergence clubs are identified within borough-lev…

  • Do Europeans View their Homes as Castles? Homeownership and Poverty Perception throughout Europe

    Open AccessDuncan Watson, Robert Webb et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2009Cited by: 7References: 19

    The paper investigates the notion that homeownership affects poverty perception. This is investigated by utilising a logit model to analyse various characteristics of homeowners in 11 different European nations. Overall, the analysis fails to reject the notion that homeowners throughout Europe are less likely to perceive themselves as living in poverty, but no evidence is found that homeownership is more valued in nations with high owner-occupanc…

  • Influence costs and the reporting of skill deficiencies

    Open AccessDuncan Watson, Robert Webb et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2006Cited by: 2References: 23

    There remains a conventional wisdom amongst economists that the UK suffers from a seriously under-skilled workforce and that an effective increase in the provision of training is key to economic regeneration. This article, while accepting the link between an underskilled workforce and economic performance, questions the reporting of skill shortages by personnel departments. This is based upon the notion that employees can spend considerable time …

  • Employer Perceptions of Skills Deficiencies in the UK Labour Market

    Open AccessDuncan Watson, Steve Johnson et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2006References: 6

    Past research on labour-market skills shortages indicates that employers report skills shortages or hard-to-fill vacancies for a variety of different reasons. Nevertheless, there is some consensus that skills-shortages analysis needs to examine such shortages within the context of the local labour market in order to understand the labour-market dynamics and structural factors that affect the propensity for unemployed people to fill 'skills shorta…

  • The Revenue Effects of the Kennedy and Reagan Tax Cuts

    Victor A Canto, Douglas H Joines et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1986

    Univariate time series models are estimated for sample periods ending with the enactment of major tax reductions in 1964 and 1981. These models are used to forecast government revenue for the period following the tax cut, and the pattern of forecast errors is examined. Unforecast revenue is negative and large relative to its standard error following the 1981 tax cuts but is close to zero following the 1964 cuts. This disparity occurs because nati…