publications

2026

1. Diluting exclusivity? The prevalence and distribution of bursaries and scholarships for Britain’s private schools

   Francis Green, Golo Henseke, Sangwoo Lee, and 1 more author

   British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2026

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   Bursaries and scholarships are sometimes advanced as a mitigating factor for Britain’s private schools’ social exclusiveness and as a vehicle for social reform. This paper analyses trends in these grants since 1997 using the Family Resources Survey. We find that one in ten private school pupils received a bursary or scholarship, while only 3.4% of total fees were mitigated in this way. Over time the grants became more common but decreased in value relative to fees. Grant support was greater for single-parent families and was partly progressive across income groups, becoming less so over time. Across occupational classes, grant frequency was consistently neutral, but grant amounts were somewhat progressive. Drawing on these findings and on historical evidence from the twentieth century, the paper concludes that bursaries and scholarships are unlikely to bring forth a significant reform of the socio-economic sectoral divide in Britain’s school system.

2. Facilitating intergenerational social mobility through higher education: three challenges for policymakers

   Rachel Brooks, Benjamin Hart, Golo Henseke, and 3 more authors

   Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2026

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   Social mobility remains a key concern for policymakers in many countries across the world. Despite widespread initiatives to improve the life chances of disadvantaged groups, rates of intergenerational mobility have, over recent decades, either slowed or been resistant to change. As higher education has often been positioned as an effective driver of improving mobility, this article draws on an internationally-focused study to assess what we can learn about the relationship between this sector of education and intergenerational social mobility. On the basis of interviews and focus groups with experts, plus analysis of nine case study countries, it outlines three key challenges for policymakers seeking to draw on international evidence to improve practice in their own nation-state. These relate to the importance of thinking critically about processes of policy transfer; the quality of data available; and understandings of higher education as a driver of social mobility.

3. From Exposure to Adoption: Generative AI in European Workplaces

   Golo Henseke

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18849, 2026

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   This study examines who adopts generative AI and whether early adoption has begun to reshape the task content of jobs across 35 European countries. Adoption ranges from under 3% to 25%, and occupational exposure strongly predicts uptake, but AI does not diffuse passively along exposure lines. At the worker level, skills, abstract task content, and employee organisational influence steepen the exposure-adoption gradient; at the country level, so do digitalisation and workplace training. A gender gap persists, concentrated in the most exposed occupations, and a shift-share design finds no detectable effect of adoption on worker-reported task restructuring, consistent with an initial integration phase.

4. The Spatial Anatomy of Working at Home: Concepts, Measures and Types of Spaces Used

   Alan Felstead, Rhys Davies, Duncan Gallie, and 3 more authors

   Industrial Relations Journal, 2026

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   This article provides a spatial analysis of working at home. It makes distinctions according to the extent to which the boundaries of work and home spatially overlap. Using this conceptual lens, it deploys data from Britain′s Skills and Employment Survey to track the trends and patterns of homeworking and hybrid working over the last two decades. The article also examines the type of home spaces used. It identifies the characteristics of those who use a home office as opposed to other spaces, such as the kitchen or the lounge, where unpaid domestic tasks are carried out. The results show that, first, the relatively privileged are more likely to work at home. Second, those spending more time working at home, living in larger and better-maintained homes, and men rather than women are more likely to have a home office. Furthermore, gendered access to a home office persists even among dual-earner households.

2025

1. Degrees of demand: a task-based analysis of the British graduate labour market

   Golo Henseke, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and 1 more author

   Oxford Economic Papers, 2025

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   This study investigates the evolving demand for graduate skills in the British workforce, leveraging a task-based approach with data from the Skills and Employment Survey Series.

2. How exposed are UK jobs to generative AI? Developing and applying a novel task-based index

   Golo Henseke, Rhys Davies, Alan Felstead, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22748, 2025

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   We develop the Generative AI Susceptibility Index (GAISI), a task-based measure of UK job exposure to large language models. By 2023-24, nearly all UK jobs exhibited some exposure, yet only a minority were heavily affected.

3. Revisiting the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 on Young Adults in the UK: Long-Term Trends, Temporary Setbacks, and Recovery

   Golo Henseke and Ingrid Schoon

   Social Indicators Research, 2025

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   This study assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of 16- to 29-year-olds in the United Kingdom, using longitudinal data covering the period from 2001 to 2023.

4. Contextualising the extrinsic outcomes of higher education during mass expansion: an introduction

   Golo Henseke

   Studies in Higher Education, 2025

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   This paper examines how higher education’s extrinsic outcomes—including economic productivity, graduate labour market success, and social trust—remain unevenly distributed and contingent upon structural inequalities, institutional contexts, and national policy frameworks despite global massification that has doubled tertiary enrollment rates since 2000.

5. Socio-economic and gender differences in post-secondary pathways in the UK, Germany, and Australia

   Wojtek Tomaszewski, Hans Dietrich, Golo Henseke, and 2 more authors

   Social Inclusion, 2025

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   This cross-national study of young people (aged 18-27) in the UK, Germany, and Australia confirms that parental education continues to shape post-secondary pathways with stronger effects in Germany’s tracked system than in the more comprehensive British and Australian systems, while gender disparities vary markedly across countries, being most pronounced in Australia and minimal in Germany, highlighting how institutional contexts mediate socioeconomic and gender inequalities in school-to-work transitions.

2024

1. Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs)

   Jake Anders, Francis Green, Morag Henderson, and 1 more author

   Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024

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2023

1. Is a PhD worth more than a Master’s in the UK labour market? The role of specialisation and managerial position

   Giulio Marini and Golo Henseke

   Studies in Higher Education, 2023

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2. Navigating an Uncertain Future: How Schools Can Support Career Adaptability of Young People in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic

   Ingrid Schoon and Golo Henseke

   Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2023

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2022

1. Social inequalities in young people’s mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: do psychosocial resource factors matter?

   Ingrid Schoon and Golo Henseke

   Frontiers in Public Health, 2022

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2. Does attending an English private school benefit mental health and life satisfaction? From adolescence to adulthood

   Morag Henderson, Jake Anders, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   Cambridge Journal of Education, 2022

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3. Living with COVID-19: Subjective well-being in the second phase of the pandemic

   Golo Henseke, Francis Green, and Ingrid Schoon

   Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2022

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   This study examines determinants of recovery in youth subjective well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that social contacts and career prospects contributed significantly to life satisfaction improvements.

4. Youth unemployment in Canada, Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in times of COVID-19

   Zechuan Deng, Rubab Arim, Golo Henseke, and 5 more authors

   Economic and Social Reports, 2022

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5. Perceived effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on educational progress and the learning of job skills: New evidence on young adults in the United Kingdom

   Francis Green, Golo Henseke, and Ingrid Schoon

   Journal of Education and Work, 2022

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6. Working still harder

   Francis Green, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and 1 more author

   ILR Review, 2022

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2021

1. Income, housing wealth, and private school access in Britain

   Golo Henseke, Jake Anders, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   Education Economics, 2021

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2. Europe’s evolving graduate labour markets: supply, demand, underemployment and pay

   Francis Green and Golo Henseke

   Journal for Labour Market Research, 2021

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   Analysing European graduate labour markets up to 2015, we find that graduate supply increased and converged across countries, while graduate job growth was slower and non-convergent. Underemployment spread modestly, real wages trended downward, and graduate wage premiums declined in several countries.

3. Task-Warranted Graduate Jobs and Mismatch

   Francis Green and Golo Henseke

   The Singapore Economic Review, 2021

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4. Youth unemployment in Germany and the United Kingdom in times of Covid-19

   Hans Dietrich, Golo Henseke, Juliane Achatz, and 3 more authors

   In IAB-Forum, 2021

   

2020

1. Private benefits? External benefits? Outcomes of private schooling in 21st century Britain

   Francis Green, Jake Anders, Morag Henderson, and 1 more author

   Journal of Social Policy, 2020

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2. Private schooling, subject choice, upper secondary attainment and progression to university

   Morag Henderson, Jake Anders, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   Oxford Review of Education, 2020

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3. Unpredictable times: the extent, characteristics and correlates of insecure hours of work in Britain

   Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   Industrial Relations Journal, 2020

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4. Determinants of private school participation: All about the money?

   Jake Anders, Francis Green, Morag Henderson, and 1 more author

   British Educational Research Journal, 2020

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5. Getting the measure of employee-driven innovation and its workplace correlates

   Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020

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2019

1. Against the grain? Assessing graduate labour market trends in Germany through a task-based indicator of graduate jobs

   Golo Henseke

   Social Indicators Research, 2019

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2. The determinants of skills use and work pressure: A longitudinal analysis

   Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2019

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3. Conceiving, designing and trailing a short-form measure of job quality: A proof-of-concept study

   Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Francis Green, and 1 more author

   Industrial Relations Journal, 2019

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2018

1. Good jobs, good pay, better health? The effects of job quality on health among older European workers

   Golo Henseke

   The European Journal of Health Economics, 2018

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2. Do private school girls marry rich?

   Francis Green, Golo Henseke, Samantha Parsons, and 2 more authors

   Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2018

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2017

1. Assessing the growth of remote working and its consequences for effort, well-being and work-life balance

   Alan Felstead and Golo Henseke

   New Technology, Work and Employment, 2017

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2. The implications of direct participation for organisational commitment, job satisfaction and affective psychological well-being: a longitudinal analysis

   Duncan Gallie, Ying Zhou, Alan Felstead, and 2 more authors

   Industrial Relations Journal, 2017

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3. Cross-National Deployment of "Graduate Jobs": Analysis Using a New Indicator Based on High Skills Use

   Golo Henseke and Francis Green

   In Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets, 2017

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4. Private schooling and labour market outcomes

   Francis Green, Golo Henseke, and Anna Vignoles

   British Educational Research Journal, 2017

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2016

1. Skills and work organisation in Britain: a quarter century of change

   Francis Green, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and 1 more author

   Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016

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2. Should governments of OECD countries worry about graduate underemployment?

   Francis Green and Golo Henseke

   Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2016

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   Using a new index of graduate jobs across 21 OECD countries, we find that graduate underemployment is correlated with supply-demand imbalance and associated with lower pay and job satisfaction, though higher education retains external benefits even for the underemployed.

3. The changing graduate labour market: analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs

   Francis Green and Golo Henseke

   IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016

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2011

1. Wohlstand ohne Kinder?: sozioökonomische Rahmenbedingungen und Geburtenentwicklung im internationalen Vergleich

   Thusnelda Tivig, Golo Henseke, and Matthias Czechl

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2010

1. Demographic change and the economically active populations of OECD countries–Could older workers compensate for the decline?

   Golo Henseke

   In From Grey to Silver: Managing the Demographic Change Successfully, 2010

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