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Looking through the hourglass: Hollowing out of the UK jobs market pre- and post-crisis

An event presenting new research from the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Institute for Social and Economic Research with the Resolution Foundation.

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ISER evidence prompts call to prioritise disadvantaged children in pre-school childcare spending

Current policy is not closing the gap in attainment between children from richer and poorer families

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ESRC Multi-disciplinary Health & Biomarkers Conference

This conference is aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary research concentrated on the potential use of biomarkers in health research.

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Life after death - 60 per cent of UK women in their forties believe in an after-life

A new study of more than 9,000 British people in their forties, by Professor David Voas, finds 54 per cent of men agnostic or athesist.

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  1. Understanding the added worker effect: A multiple methods interpretation

    Heather Laurie, Karon Gush, James Scott, Mark L. Bryan, and Simonetta Longhi

  2. The scarring effect of unemployment from the early ‘90s to the Great Recession

    Alberto Tumino

  3. Housework share between partners: experimental evidence on gender identity

    Katrin Auspurg, Maria Iacovou, and Cheti Nicoletti

Understanding Society

  1. Linking administrative records to surveys: differences in the correlates to consent decisions

    Tarek Al Baghal, Gundi Knies, and Jonathan Burton

    1. Survey Methodology
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  2. The role of email addresses and email contact in encouraging web response in a mixed mode design

    Alexandru Cernat and Peter Lynn

  3. Targeted initial letters to longitudinal survey sample members: effects on response rates, response speed, and sample composition

    Peter Lynn

EUROMOD

  1. Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system: An illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech Republic

    Silvia Avram and Eva Militaru

  2. Credit crunched: Single parents, universal credit and the struggle to make work pay

    Mike Brewer and Paola De Agostini

  3. The National Minimum Wage and its interaction with the tax and benefits system: a focus on Universal Credit

    Mike Brewer and Paola De Agostini

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