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Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers (2022)
Journal Article
Whittard, D., Drew, H., & Ritchie, F. (2022). Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers. Journal of Education and Work, 35(6-7), 751-765. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2126972

The student workforce plays a substantial part in several low-paying industries such as retail and hospitality, and this has grown over time. However, there has been little recent research. The usual assumption is that students compete successfully w... Read More about Not just arms and legs: Employer perspectives on student workers.

Risk of disclosure when reporting commonly used univariate statistics (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Derrick, B., Green, E., Ritchie, F., & White, P. (2022). Risk of disclosure when reporting commonly used univariate statistics. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (119-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13945-1_9

When basic or descriptive summary statistics are reported, it may be possible that the entire sample of observations is inadvertently disclosed, or that members within a sample will be able to work out responses of others. Three sets of univariate su... Read More about Risk of disclosure when reporting commonly used univariate statistics.

10 is the safest number that there's ever been (2022)
Journal Article
Ritchie, F. (2022). 10 is the safest number that there's ever been. Transactions on data privacy, 15(2), 109-140

When checking frequency and magnitude tables for disclosure risk, the cell threshold (the minimum number of observations in each cell) is a crucial parameter. In rules-based environments, this is a hard limit on what can or can't be published. In pri... Read More about 10 is the safest number that there's ever been.

Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide (2022)
Working Paper
Whittard, D., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L., Forth, J., Phan, V., Bryson, A., & Singleton, C. Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide

The Wage and Employment Dynamics (WED) project was funded by Administrative Data Research 2019-2022 to review, quality assure and enhance ASHE data. The project was also provided with ASHE data linked to the 2011 Census for England and Wales. This do... Read More about Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide.

Direct shock experience vs. tangential shock exposure: Indirect effects of flood shocks on well-being and preferences (2022)
Journal Article
Stein, W., & Weisser, R. A. (2022). Direct shock experience vs. tangential shock exposure: Indirect effects of flood shocks on well-being and preferences. World Bank Economic Review, 36(4), 909-933. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac012

With extreme weather events on the rise, the question of how witnessing adverse weather events may affect individuals' perception, and consequently their subjective well-being, gains in relevance. To identify events that have been witnessed, i.e., ta... Read More about Direct shock experience vs. tangential shock exposure: Indirect effects of flood shocks on well-being and preferences.

Notas sobre acumulação de capital e “epidemias” contemporâneas (2022)
Journal Article
Rugitsky, F. (2022). Notas sobre acumulação de capital e “epidemias” contemporâneas. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 38(suppl 2), Article e00081921. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311x00081921

Em alguns anos, quando a humanidade tiver finalmente superado o estado de calamidade causado pelo novo coronavírus, é possível que reste a sensação de que a pandemia foi uma crise pontual, um ponto fora das longas curvas de redução da taxa de mortali... Read More about Notas sobre acumulação de capital e “epidemias” contemporâneas.

A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship (2022)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Ritchie, C., Drew, H., & Ritchie, F. (2022). A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship. Hospitality and Society, 12(3), 299-318. https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00055_1

Since the 1990s, the hospitality industry has been increasingly characterized by temporary and insecure forms of employment, a development, which has coincided with rising numbers of students seeking part-time employment. This provides increased job... Read More about A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship.

Corporate mindfulness culture and neoliberalism (2022)
Journal Article
Wrenn, M. V. (2022). Corporate mindfulness culture and neoliberalism. Review of Radical Political Economics, 54(2), 153-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134211063521

Corporate mindfulness is the favorite labor management technique of the neoliberal period. The formalized packaging of corporate mindfulness began in the late 1970s but was built on a long tradition of attempts to hack the minds of workers in the Uni... Read More about Corporate mindfulness culture and neoliberalism.

The multidimensional model of the one-minute paper: Advancing theory through theoretical elaboration (2022)
Journal Article
Whittard, D., Green, E., Shaffau Shareef, M., & Ismail, I. (2022). The multidimensional model of the one-minute paper: Advancing theory through theoretical elaboration. International Review of Economics Education, 41(November 2022), 100248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2022.100248

The One Minute Paper (OMP) is a formative assessment technique which provides scaffolding for students to build knowledge. This study uses a theory elaboration approach to develop the Multidimensional Model of the One-Minute Paper. The model is conce... Read More about The multidimensional model of the one-minute paper: Advancing theory through theoretical elaboration.

Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country: A study in the southern of Vietnam (2022)
Thesis
Phan, H. Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country: A study in the southern of Vietnam. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8046146

Given that sustainability performance measurement has gained a lot of momentum in recent years, there has been a shortcoming of sustainability metrics developed from SMEs perspective. This thesis investigated the most appropriate metrics for SMEs in... Read More about Measuring sustainability performance of SMEs in a developing country: A study in the southern of Vietnam.

Securitization, covered bonds and the risk taking behavior of European banks (2022)
Working Paper
Arif, A., Bottazzi, L., & Pastorello, S. (2022). Securitization, covered bonds and the risk taking behavior of European banks

This study investigates the impact of securitization and the issuance of covered bonds on the credit risk taking behavior of banks. We collected data for seven major European economies for the period between 2001 and 2014, that is, both before and af... Read More about Securitization, covered bonds and the risk taking behavior of European banks.

How do local banks respond to natural disasters? (2022)
Journal Article
Do, Q. A., Phan, V., & Nguyen, D. T. (2023). How do local banks respond to natural disasters?. European Journal of Finance, 29(7), 754-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2022.2055969

The increasing frequency and intensity of catastrophic natural disasters have the potential to stress and imperil banks to the point of compromised viability or even bankruptcy. Using data of approximately 907 domestic/local banks and Spatial Hazard... Read More about How do local banks respond to natural disasters?.

Retrofitting existing office buildings towards life-cycle net-zero energy and carbon (2022)
Journal Article
Luo, X. (2022). Retrofitting existing office buildings towards life-cycle net-zero energy and carbon. Sustainable Cities and Society, 83, Article 103956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103956

Background Energy devices for achieving net-zero operating energy and carbon generally entails additional embodied energy and carbon during the production and disposal stages. For a building to be considered as truly life-cycle net-zero, the energy... Read More about Retrofitting existing office buildings towards life-cycle net-zero energy and carbon.

O Brasil No Inferno Global: Capitalismo E Democracia Fora Dos Trilhos (2022)
Book
Singer, A., Araujo, C., & Rugitsky, F. (Eds.). (2022). O Brasil No Inferno Global: Capitalismo E Democracia Fora Dos Trilhos. Portal de Livros Abertos da USP: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. https://doi.org/10.11606/9788575064085

Esta coletânea conta com textos de cientistas políticos, sociólogos e economistas reunidos, elaborados entre 2020 e 2021, em torno do Grupo de Pesquisa Pensamento e Política no Brasil, associado ao Centro de Estudos dos Direitos da Cidadania da Facul... Read More about O Brasil No Inferno Global: Capitalismo E Democracia Fora Dos Trilhos.

Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE (2022)
Working Paper
Stokes, L., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Singleton, C., Phan, V., Bryson, A., …McKenzie, A. Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. Weights are provided with the core dataset, which adjust the profile of the annual achieved sample suc... Read More about Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE.

Unit trust performance metrics: A comparison of value, growth, and ethical fund (2022)
Thesis
Said, A. Unit trust performance metrics: A comparison of value, growth, and ethical fund. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7667929

Empirical evidence from the mutual fund industry suggests that on average, mutual fund managers do not possess stock selection abilities. Yet, there is always the possibility that traditional performance measures are not sufficient to detect such ski... Read More about Unit trust performance metrics: A comparison of value, growth, and ethical fund.

Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution (2022)
Working Paper
Phan, V., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L., & Whittard, D. (2022). Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution

Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, de... Read More about Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution.

Should central bank liquidity be a vehicle for fiscal disciplining? (2022)
Journal Article
Vestergaard, J., & Gabor, D. (2022). Should central bank liquidity be a vehicle for fiscal disciplining?. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 46(3), 491-509. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac010

With notable exceptions, central banking scholars typically pay little attention to collateral frameworks, and therein, to the haircuts applied to the collateral assets pledged to access central bank liquidity. One such exception, Kjell Nyborg (2017)... Read More about Should central bank liquidity be a vehicle for fiscal disciplining?.

Connectedness between G10 currencies: Searching for the causal structure (2022)
Journal Article
Bettendorf, T., & Heinlein, R. (2023). Connectedness between G10 currencies: Searching for the causal structure. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 28(4), 3938-3959. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2629

This paper presents a new approach for modelling the connectedness between asset returns. We adapt the measure of Diebold and Yilmaz, which is based on the forecast error variance decomposition of a VAR model. However, their connectedness measure hin... Read More about Connectedness between G10 currencies: Searching for the causal structure.

Disclosure risks in odds ratios and logistic regression (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Derrick, B., Green, E., Ritchie, F., & White, P. (2022, April). Disclosure risks in odds ratios and logistic regression. Paper presented at Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference 2022: Special session 'Protecting confidentiality in social science research outputs', Glasgow

When publishing statistics from confidential data, there exists a risk that the statistic might inadvertently reveal confidential information. Statistical disclosure control (SDC) aims to reduce that risk to an acceptable level. Most SDC theory is co... Read More about Disclosure risks in odds ratios and logistic regression.