Labour markets and institutions

Recent Publications

• Commuting and gender differences in job opportunities -
  1. Silvia Avram
• Do high minimum wages harm the progression of minimum wage workers? Evidence from the United Kingdom -
  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
• Gender and parenthood differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK -
  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
• Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades -
  1. Hettie Burn
  2. Laura Fumagalli
  3. Birgitta Rabe
• Outside the box? – Women’s individual poverty risk in the EU and the role of labour market characteristics and tax-benefit policies -
  1. Katrin Gasior
  2. Silvia Avram
  3. Daria Popova
• The economic value of childhood socio-emotional skills -
  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Ben Etheridge
  3. Paul Garcia
• Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing? -
  1. Amy Clair
  2. Emma Baker
  3. Meena Kumari
• Gender differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK -
  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
• Policy uncertainty and information flows: evidence from pension reform expectations -
  1. Emanuele Ciani
  2. Adeline Delavande
  3. Ben Etheridge
  4. Marco Francesconi
• The accumulation of economic disadvantage: the influence of childbirth and divorce on the income and poverty risk of single mothers -
  1. Susan Harkness

More Publications

Explainers

• Worker productivity during COVID-19 and adaptation to working from home -
  1. Ben Etheridge
  2. Ashley Burdett
  3. Li Tang
  4. Yikai Wang
• Are poor research methods influencing education policy? -
  1. Joshua Fullard
• Cold homes and mental health -
  1. Dr Amy Clair
  2. Professor Emma Baker
• Are women with families paying the price for a lack of mobility? Quantitative and qualitative gender differences in job mobility and how these influence pay -
  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
• Does it pay to be a teacher? -
  1. Joshua Fullard
• Graduates’ labour market and training expectations during COVID-19 -
  1. Emilia Del Bono
  2. Adeline Delavande
  3. Angus Holford
• Housing and health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in England -
  1. Amy Clair
  2. Adam Tinson
• Does a high minimum wage make it harder for minimum wage workers to progress? -
  1. Dr Silvia Avram
  2. Professor Susan Harkness
• Ethnic diversity in UK economics -
  1. Arun Advani
  2. Sonkurt Sen
  3. Ross Warwick

More MiSoc Explainers

Blog

• Attracting entrepreneurial scientists – should the UK be more like the US? -
  Peter Jelfs, Tommaso Sartori, Angus Holford
• How we are making women’s risk of poverty more visible: No insights without data -
  Katrin Gasior
• Peer pressures -
  Angus Holford
• The unexplored impacts of international students -
  Angus Holford
• Insecure renting ages you faster than owning a home, unemployment or obesity. Better housing policy can change this -
  Amy Clair, Meena Kumari
• Advanced British Standard: A-level replacement will require more teachers – but bonuses may not be the way to get them -
  Joshua Fullard
• Why a good Ofsted report can be bad for GCSE results -
  Birgitta Rabe
• Do host country human capital acquisitions and the context of reception shape the employment and occupational prestige gap between the native-born, economic and non-economic migrants in European countries -
  Neli Demireva, Wouter Zwysen
• Life Course Disadvantage of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Women in the UK -
  Magda Borkowska, Neli Demireva
• Teachers are quitting – here’s what could be done to get them to stay -
  Joshua Fullard

More Blog Posts

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