Previous studies of job satisfaction in the labour force as a whole have found that women generally express themselves as more satisfied at work than men. This paper examines the relationship between age and individual job satisfaction using a uniquely detailed dataset on Scottish academics. The...

This article uses Propensity Score Matching (PSM) techniques to assess the extent to which the costs of overeducation are likely to have been over-estimated as a result of unobserved skill heterogeneity in studies adopting the standard ordinary least squares (OLS) wage equation framework. It was...

This paper tests for the existence of long run inter-regional equilibrium relationships in income per capita within the UK over the period 1971-95. We examine both the cross-sectional and time-series evidence of inter-regional convergence. The time series approach allows us to investigate...