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We maintain a database of publications which use BHPS data (journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers/proceedings, official publications, working papers, dissertations) and it is important that we keep it up to date.

If you have any recent publications which use the BHPS, and which are not already included in the database, please contact the publications@understandingsociety.ac.uk.

Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 314 in total

  1. No gain in pain: psychological well-being, participation, and wages in the BHPS

    Elena Lagomarsino and Alessandro Spiganti

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  2. The long-term costs of family trajectories: women’s later-life employment and earnings across Europe

    Joanne S. Muller, Nicole Hiekel, and Aart C. Liefbroer

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Life Course Analysis

  3. A new career in a new town. Job search methods and regional mobility of unemployed workers

    Andrea Morescalchi

    1. Social Networks
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment

  4. Persisting disadvantages: a study of labour market dynamics of ethnic unemployment and earnings in the UK (2009–2015)

    Yaojun Li and Anthony Heath

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Ethnic Groups
    5. Life Course Analysis

  5. Longitudinal evidence for reciprocal effects between life satisfaction and job satisfaction

    Piotr Białowolski and Dorota Weziak-Białowolska

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  6. Do unions cause job dissatisfaction? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the United Kingdom

    Ioulia Bessa, Andy Charlwood, and Danat Valizade

    1. Pensions
    2. Psychology
    3. Sociology Of Labour
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Well Being

  7. Later retirement, job strain, and health: evidence from the new State Pension age in the United Kingdom

    Ludovico Carrino, Karen Glaser, and Mauricio Avendano

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Life Course Analysis

  8. Occupational inequalities in volunteering participation: using detailed data on jobs to explore the influence of habits and circumstances

    Paul S. Lambert and Alasdair C. Rutherford

    1. Labour Market
    2. Sociology
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Behaviour

  9. Provider or father? British men’s work hours and work hour preferences after the birth of a child

    Stefanie Hoherz and Mark L. Bryan

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Life Course Analysis

  10. The economic benefits of volunteering and social class

    John Wilson, Noemi Mantovan, and Robert Sauer

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Social Capital
    5. Social Stratification

  11. Underemployment and psychological distress: propensity score and fixed effects estimates from two large UK samples

    Victoria Mousteri, Michael Daly, and Liam Delaney

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  12. Family, place and the intergenerational transmission of union membership

    Alex Bryson and Rhys Davies

    1. Area Effects
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Sociology Of Households

  13. Is there a fatherhood wage premium? A reassessment in societies with strong male-breadwinner legacies

    Gabriele Mari

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Sociology Of Households

  14. The relationship between personality and job satisfaction across occupations

    Maria Törnroos, Markus Jokela, and Christian Hakulinen

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  15. A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991–2017

    Muzhi Zhou and  Man Yee Kan

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Labour Market
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Sociology Of Households

  16. The British low-wage sector and the employment prospects of the unemployed

    Alexander Plum

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Unemployment
    4. Wages And Earnings

  17. Stepping-stone or dead end: to what extent does part-time employment enable progression out of low pay for male and female employees in the UK?

    Madeline Nightingale

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Social Policy

  18. Domestic divisions of work and couple dissolution in the UK

    Iñigo Fernández Iturrate and Marta Domínguez-Folgueras

    1. Time Use
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Social Behaviour
    5. Sociology Of Households

  19. Returns to work after retirement: a prospective study of unretirement in the United Kingdom

    Loretta G. Platts, Laurie M. Corna, Diana Worts, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Life Course Analysis

  20. Moving on and moving out: the implications of socio-spatial mobility for union stability

    Marina Shapira, Vernon Gayle, and Elspeth Graham

    1. Geography
    2. Demography
    3. Migration
    4. Labour Market
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Sociology Of Households

  21. The restorative effect of work after unemployment: an intraindividual analysis of subjective well-being recovery through reemployment

    Ying Zhou, Min Zou, Stephen A. Woods, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis

  22. Can cultural consumption increase future earnings? Exploring the economic returns to cultural capital

    Aaron Reeves and Robert de Vries

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Arts
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Stratification
    7. Social Mobility

  23. Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

    Min Zhang and Yaojun Li

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Sociology Of Households

  24. Wage dynamics and peer referrals

    Vincent Boucher and Marion Goussé

    1. Social Networks
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings

  25. Distributional consequences of technological change: worker-level evidence

    Thomas Kurer and Aina Gallego

    1. Politics
    2. Information And Communication Technologies
    3. Science And Technology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being

  26. Curb your enthusiasm: optimistic entrepreneurs earn less

    Christopher Dawson, David de Meza, Andrew Henley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Management: Business
    3. Labour Market
    4. Organizations And Firms
    5. Wages And Earnings

  27. Vocation, mental illness and the absenteeism decision

    Ourega-Zoé Ejebu and Diane Skåtun

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  28. Paradox lost: the disappearing female job satisfaction premium

    Colin P. Green, John S. Heywood, Parvinder Kler, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being

  29. Informal caregiving and markers of adiposity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Rebecca E. Lacey, Anne McMunn, and Elizabeth Webb

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Health
    4. Caregiving
    5. Biology

  30. Young people's labour market transitions: the role of early experiences

    Richard Dorsett and Paolo Lucchino

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Life Course Analysis

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