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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 219 in total

  1. Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: evidence from the UK from 1991-2017

    Heather Brown

    1. Politics
    2. Lone Parents
    3. Households
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Public Policy
    7. Government
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Well Being
    10. Health
    11. Life Course Analysis
    12. Social Stratification
    13. Social Mobility

  2. Electoral shocks: the volatile voter in a turbulent world

    Edward Fieldhouse, Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Politics
    3. Public Opinion
    4. Public Opinion
    5. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    6. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    7. Migration
    8. Migration
    9. Social Change
    10. Social Change
    11. Economics
    12. Economics
    13. Social Attitudes
    14. Social Attitudes
    15. International Economic Relations
    16. International Economic Relations

  3. Structural social capital and mental health: a panel study

    Damiano Fiorillo, Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera, and Nunzia Nappo

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Social Capital
    5. Health

  4. Unemployment durations and local labour market conditions

    Tom Pierse and John McHale

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

  5. Education, income and happiness: panel evidence for the UK

    Felix R. FitzRoy and Michael A. Nolan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Well Being
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Does repeated measurement improve income data quality?

    Paul Fisher

    1. Economics
    2. Survey Methodology
    3. Income Dynamics

  9. Economic insecurity and the rise of the right

    Walter Bossert, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    4. Economics
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Social Attitudes

  10. Labour mobility and earnings in the UK, 1992-2016

    Fabien Postel-Vinay and Alireza Sepahsalari

    1. Management: Business
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Organizations And Firms
    6. Economics
    7. Wages And Earnings

  11. 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

  12. Investigating the relationship between formal and informal care: an application using panel data for people living together

    Sean Urwin, Yiu-Shing Lau, and Thomas Mason

    1. Time Use
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving

  13. Post-conflict area-based regeneration policy in deprived urban neighbourhoods

    Gretta Mohan, Alberto Longo, and Frank Kee

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Urban Economy
    5. Religion
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Welfare Benefits
    9. Government

  14. The health effects of Sure Start

    Sarah Cattan, Gabriella Conti, Christine Farquharson, et al.

    1. Area Effects
    2. Child Development
    3. Economics
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health

  15. The income-health gradient: evidence from self-reported health and biomarkers in Understanding Society

    Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Medicine
    2. Economics
    3. Health
    4. Biology

  16. Monetary policy and the gender pay gap: evidence from UK households

    Nicholas Apergis, Tasawar Hayat, and Nasser A. Kadasah

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Finance
    6. Economic Policy

  17. Happy days: does volunteering make us happier or is it that happier people volunteer?

    Ricky N. Lawton, Iulian Gramatki, and Will Watt

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Economics
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  18. The benefits of volunteering: a summary of work from 2014 to 2019

    Ricky N. Lawton and Will Watt

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Time Use
    4. Economics
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Behaviour

  19. Economic shocks on subjective well-being: re-assessing the determinants of life-satisfaction after the 2008 financial crisis

    Aurelie Charles, Dongxu Wu, and Zhongmin Wu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being
    5. Finance
    6. Social Psychology

  20. Tackling intergenerational unfairness. Report of session 2017–19. Ordered to be printed 26 March 2019 and published 25 April 2019

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Economics

  21. Austerity caused Brexit

    Thiemo Fetzer

    1. Politics
    2. Public Opinion
    3. Area Effects
    4. Geography
    5. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    6. Economics
    7. Poverty
    8. International Economic Relations

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Pension plans and retirement insecurity

    Wei-Ting Yen

    1. Pensions
    2. Economics

  26. Economic insecurity: a socioeconomic determinant of mental health

    Daniel Kopasker, Catia Montagna, and Keith A. Bender

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Health

  27. Will a shrink make you richer? Gender differences in the effects of psychotherapy on labour efficiency

    Guido Cozzi, Silvia Galli, and Noemi Mantovan

    1. Psychology
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Well Being

  28. Height, income and voting

    Raj Arunachalam and Sara Watson

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Economics
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Biology

  29. Economic well-being, UK: April to June 2018

    Gueorguie Vassilev

    1. Economics
    2. Household Economics
    3. Well Being
    4. Finance

  30. Irregular payments: assessing the breadth and depth of month to month earnings volatility

    Daniel Tomlinson

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Finance

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