[…] a tool for analysing the prospective effects of fiscal policies on childhood health in European countries. The aim of this first MICH study is to evaluate the impact of alternative fiscal policies on childhood overweight and obesity in Italy. Methods: MICH model is composed of three integrated modules. Firstly, module 1 (M1) simulates the […]

[…] presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s, using a nationally representative data set. It examines the impact of individual and local labour market characteristics on the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic inactivity. The […]

[…] contact and cooperation in sample surveys: the individual and fieldwork characteristics. When focusing on the attrition problem in household panel surveys it is possible to evaluate the impact of those two factors by estimating contact and co-operation probability models as in Lepkowski and Couper (2002) and Nicoletti and Peracchi (2005). Those models are useful […]

[…] units are interviewed at regular intervals, are affected by measurement error at each interview. The causes of measurement error are similar to those in cross-sectional surveys. The impact on estimates may however be worse. To improve the quality of panel data, survey organisations are increasingly using dependent interviewing (DI) techniques, whereby information about the […]

[…] 2012 from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for Germany and from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and Understanding Society for the UK. The paper examines the impact of both (her) individual and (their) couple attributes to determine the relative structuring impact of within household inequalities on gendered economic outcomes over time. Our primary […]

[…] the opportunity to remain or return to the workforce after a health shock. This paper has two main aims. Firstly, we will investigate if and how the impact of a cancer diagnosis compares with other common health shocks on labour market outcomes. We will perform counterfactual analysis to estimate a causal impact. Secondly, we […]

[…] presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s, using a nationally representative data set. It examines the impact of individual and local labour market characteristics on the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic inactivity. The […]

[…] using samples of working adults in the United Kingdom and a number of European countries. The main objective is to determine whether or not health has an impact upon wages and whether such an impact differs by gender. While much previous work in health and labour has found that health affects worker productivity and […]

We test whether in Great Britain the recent increase in the supply of university graduates has a negative impact on their wages, and analyse to what extent the local labour market for graduates should be seen as regional rather than national. We do this by computing two measures of job competition amongst graduates: the […]