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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 62 in total

  1. Can Active Labour Market Programmes emulate the mental health benefits of regular paid employment? Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom

    Senhu Wang, Adam Coutts, Brendan Burchell, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Training: Labour Market
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Unemployment durations and local labour market conditions

    Tom Pierse and John McHale

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a flexible labour market

    Richard Upward and Peter W. Wright

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Unemployment
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Wages And Earnings

  8. 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

  9. Unemployment, temporary work, and subjective well-being: the gendered effect of spousal labor market insecurity

    Hande Inanc

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Sociology Of Households
    5. Social Psychology

  10. The causal effects of income support and housing benefits on mental well-being: an application of a Bayesian network

    Oznur Ozdamar and Eleftherios Giovanis

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Unemployment
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  11. Unemployment, underweight, and obesity: findings from Understanding Society (UKHLS)

    Amanda Hughes and Meena Kumari

    1. Medicine
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Biology

  12. The upside of pessimism − biased beliefs and the paradox of the contented female worker

    Chris Dawson

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Well Being

  13. Diverse pathways in becoming an adult: the role of structure, agency and context

    Ingrid Schoon and Mark Lyons-Amos

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

  14. Job insecurity and risk of diabetes: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

    Jane E. Ferrie, Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Medicine
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Well Being
    6. Health

  15. Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007–2010: or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn

    Antje Mertens and Miriam Beblo

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being

  16. Do active labour market policies promote the well-being, health and social capital of the unemployed? Evidence from the UK

    Daniel Sage

    1. Training: Labour Market
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Social Capital
    7. Health
    8. Social Policy

  17. Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective wellbeing: a quantile approach

    Martin Binder and Alex Coad

    1. Unemployment
    2. Well Being

  18. Unions and involuntary job separations

    Tom Pierse and John McHale

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Unemployment

  19. The impact of social capital on consumption insurance and income volatility in the UK: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

    Filippo M. Pericoli, Eleonora Pierucci, and Luigi Ventura

    1. Insurance
    2. Unemployment
    3. Social Capital

  20. Unemployment impacts differently on the extremes of the distribution of a comprehensive well-being measure

    Martin Binder and Alex Coad

    1. Unemployment
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  21. With a little help from my friends? Quality of social networks, job finding and job match quality

    Lorenzo Cappellari and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Social Capital
    4. Social Behaviour

  22. A prospective analysis of labour market status and self-rated health in the UK and Russia

    Loretta G. Platts

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Health

  23. What childhood characteristics predict psychological resilience to economic shocks in adulthood?

    Nattavudh Powdthavee

    1. Young People
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Psychology

  24. The impact of husband’s job loss on partners’ mental health

    Silvia Mendolia

    1. Unemployment
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Well Being

  25. Are all single mothers the same? Evidence from British and West German women’s employment trajectories

    Hannah Zagel

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Welfare Benefits

  26. Parental unemployment and children's happiness: a longitudinal study of young people's well-being in unemployed households

    Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit

    1. Young People
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being

  27. Do local unemployment rates modify the effect of individual labour market status on psychological distress?

    Ellen Flint, Nicola Shelton, Mel Bartley, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being

  28. An instrumental variable approach to unemployment, psychological health and social norm effects

    John Gathergood

    1. Unemployment
    2. Well Being
    3. Health

  29. Common genes or exogenous shock? Disentangling the causal effect of paternal unemployment on children's schooling efforts

    Signe Hald Andersen

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Unemployment

  30. Does the effect of job loss on psychological distress differ by educational level?

    Jornt J. Mandemakers and Christiaan W. S. Monden

    1. Education
    2. Unemployment
    3. Well Being

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