Birgitta Rabe Professor of Economics, University of Essex

Email

brabe@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 874594

Office

2N2.6.07

Personal homepage

https://sites.google.com/view/birgitta-rabe/

Research Interests

I am Professor of Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, interested in applied research in education, family and labour economics. I am Co-Investigator of the ESRC Research Cente on Micro-social Change and of Understanding Society. Current and recent work includes:

• COVID19 and educational inequalities

• COVID19 school closures, mental health and labour supply

• Childhood obesity: impact of free lunches and of weight report cards

• Early child development: the effects of breastfeeding and of childcare

• Education and schools: effects of school resources, sibling spillover effects, interactions between school quality and parental investments
• Childcare and maternal labour supply

• Migration and residential mobility

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Publications

Displaying publications 61 - 68 of 68 in total

1. Occupational pensions, wages and job mobility in Germany

   Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Scottish Journal of Political Economy - 2007
   1. Pensions
   2. Labour Market

2. Dual-Earner Migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, European Society for Population Economics Conference - 23 Jun 2006

3. Differences in Opportunities? Wage, unemployment, and house-price effects on migration

   Birgitta Rabe and Mark P. Taylor

   Conference Paper, Joint Empirical Social Science Seminar - 03 May 2006

4. Occupational pensions, wages, and job mobility in Germany

   Birgitta Rabe

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2006-04 - 01 Feb 2006 - download  
   1. Pensions
   2. Labour Market

5. Dual-earner migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2006-01 - 01 Jan 2006 - download  
   1. Migration
   2. Labour Market
   3. Wages And Earnings

6. Dual-Earner Migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, Policy Studies Institute Seminar - 15 Dec 2005

7. Dual-Earner Migration in Britain: earnings gains, employment, and self-selection

   Birgitta Rabe

   Conference Paper, Joint Empirical Social Science Seminar - 19 Oct 2005

8. The role of firm pensions for job change in Germany

   Birgitta Rabe

   Journal Article, Schmollers Jahrbuch - 2005

Media

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1. Benefits of free nursery education 'not lasting'

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