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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 164 in total

  1. Female human capital mismatch: an extension for the British public sector

    Yannis Galanakis

    1. Human Capital
    2. Demography
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Wages And Earnings

  2. GCSE results: the hidden but enduring effects of parental social class

    Sarah Stopforth, Vernon Gayle, and Ellen Boeren

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Sciences
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Research
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification

  3. Parental social class and school GCSE outcomes: two decades of evidence from UK household panel surveys

    Sarah Stopforth, Vernon Gayle, and Ellen Boeren

    1. Social Groups
    2. Social Sciences
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Research
    6. Sociology
    7. Social Stratification

  4. 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

  5. Social mobility - are ethnic minorities being left behind?

    Yaojun Li and Yaojun Li

    1. Migration
    2. Migration
    3. Education
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Labour Market
    7. Ethnic Groups
    8. Ethnic Groups
    9. Social Stratification
    10. Social Stratification
    11. Social Mobility
    12. Social Mobility

  6. 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

  7. Understanding cultural omnivores: social and political attitudes

    Tak Wing Chan

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Arts
    4. Social Attitudes
    5. Sociology
    6. Social Mobility

  8. 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

  9. The adult skills gap: is falling investment in UK adults stalling social mobility?

    Daria Luchinskaya and Peter Dickinson

    1. Social Groups
    2. Training: Labour Market
    3. Education
    4. Public Policy
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Social Mobility

  10. 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

  11. Do private school girls marry rich?

    Francis Green, Golo Henseke, Samantha Parsons, et al.

    1. Social Groups
    2. Education
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Social Mobility

  12. Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women’s and their partners’ education: evidence from Britain 1991–2012

    Nitzan Peri-Rotem and Jacqueline Scott

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Family Formation And Dissolution
    6. Childbearing: Fertility

  13. Do ‘his’ education and class matter? The changing effect of the husband on women's labour‐market transitions in Italy and Britain

    Cristina Solera

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

  14. Why does women’s education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce

    Diederik Boertien and Juho Harkonen

    1. Education
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution

  15. Dynastic inequality compared: multigenerational mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

    Guido Neidhöfer and Maximilian Stockhausen

    1. Human Capital
    2. Education
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Social Mobility

  16. The long term evolution of inequality of opportunity

    Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi, and Vito Peragine

    1. Social Networks
    2. Social Structure
    3. Education
    4. Labour Market
    5. Economics
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Life Course Analysis

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

    Felix FitzRoy and Michael Nolan

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

  18. Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment: the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns

    Teodora Boneva and Christopher Rauh

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Economics
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Higher Education

  19. Can personality explain the educational gradient in divorce? Evidence from a nationally representative panel survey

    Diederik Boertien, Christian von Scheve, and Mona Park

    1. Psychology
    2. Education
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution

  20. Do grandparents matter? Three-generational social mobility in Britain

    Min Zhang

    1. Education
    2. Social Stratification
    3. Social Mobility

  21. Household labour supply and the marriage market in the UK, 1991-2008

    Marion Goussé, Nicolas Jacquemet, and Jean-Marc Robin

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Family Formation And Dissolution
    4. Wages And Earnings

  22. Education and civic engagement: a comparative study of the benefits of post-compulsory education in England and Germany

    Emma Salter, Angelika Kuemmerling, Rod Bond, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Social Capital
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Higher Education

  23. Does compulsory education really increase life satisfaction?

    Andrew E. Clark and SeEun Jung

    1. Education
    2. Well Being

  24. Young people's development and the Great Recession: uncertain transitions and precarious futures

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Economics
    6. Well Being
    7. Life Course Analysis

  25. Employment and family transitions: trends before and after the Great Recession

    Mark Lyons-Amos and Ingrid Schoon

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

  26. The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood

    Eleni Karagiannaki

    1. Education
    2. Households
    3. Savings And Assets

  27. Does education improve financial outcomes? Quasi-experimental evidence from Britain

    Daniel Gray, Alberto Montagnoli, and Mirko Moro

    1. Education
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Household Economics
    4. Debt: Indebtedness
    5. Finance

  28. Does education improve financial outcomes? Quasi-experimental evidence from Britain

    Daniel Gray, Alberto Montagnoli, and Mirko Moro

    1. Education
    2. Savings And Assets
    3. Household Economics
    4. Debt: Indebtedness
    5. Finance

  29. 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

  30. Education: commentary

    David Laws

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Migration
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Unemployment
    7. Public Policy
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Ethnic Groups

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