Past events
Is there a wage curve for the highly educated?
Presented by: Sanna-Mari Hynninen, ISER visitor, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
An Equality Measurement Framework for Britain – outcomes, processes and autonomy
Presented by: Tania Burchardt (STICERD, London School of Economics) (joint with Polly Wizard)
Occupational Change in Britain and Germany
Presented by: Simonetta Longhi and Malcolm Brynin, ISER
Does ethnic diversity erode trust?: Putnam’s ‘hunkering-down’ thesis reconsidered
Presented by: Patrick Sturgis (Southampton Statistical Science Research Institute, University of Southampton) Co-authors: Ian Brunton-Smith, and Sanna Read, Nick Allum
A Meta Analysis of the Preference Reversal Phenomenon
Presented by: Peter Moffatt (University of East Anglia) Co-author: Nicholas Bardsley
The long-term impacts of selection by ability: Evidence from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s
Presented by: Emilia Del Bono (ISER)
Hither or Thither? Migration Patterns among UK Graduates and the implications for Regional Economic Disparities Tuesday Seminar
Presented by: Maria Abreu (Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge) Co-authors: Michael Kitson, Philip David Wales
The Three Rs: The Scope for Literacy and Numeracy Policies to Raise Achievement
Presented by: Sandra McNally (London School of Economics)
Multi-process Event-History Analysis of Internal Migration and Leaving the Parental Home using the BHPS: How the Social Capital Mediates?
Presented by: Sergi Vidal (ECASS visitor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Primary and secondary effects in the explanation of immigrants’ disadvantage in education
Presented by: Hector Cebolla Boado (Department of Sociology II, Universidad Nacional de EducaciÛn a Distancia ñ Spain)
Social tourism – the potential role of holidays in reducing social exclusion
Presented by: Special Thursday Policy Seminar Lynn Minnaert (Centre for Tourism Research, University of Westminster)
How and Why the Dynamics od Poverty Differ across European Countries
Presented by: Giacomo Damioli (ISER)
The importance of being present: The influence of ‘absent’ parents and ‘present’ step-parents on children’s educational attainment.
Presented by: Janne O. Jonsson (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University ñ Sweden)
Part-Time Employment, Non-Participation, and Life Satisfaction of Mothers in Germany
Presented by: Eva Berger (ISER visitor, DIW, Berlin)
Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Victimisation on Labour Market Outcomes and General Well-Being
Presented by: Steve Stillman (MOTU Economic and Public Policy Research ñ New Zealand)
The route to take-up: raising incentives or lowering barriers?
Presented by: Francesca Zantomio (ISER)
God and the Unmoved Mover: Partisan Change, Social Identity, and Growth Models
Presented by: Thomas Scotto, Department of Government
A genetic basis for trust? Using twin design to study the origin of individual differences in trust
Presented by: Sanna Read (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London)
Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes: Intergenerational Transmission and Socioeconomic Channels
Presented by: Thomas Siedler (DIW, Berlin)