[…] non-employment. The distinction between types of promotion, made in our study, proved fruitful as it seems to explain gender differences in promotion probabilities. We show that the impact of gender on promotions depends crucially on how promotions are defined. Women are more likely than men to receive automatic promotions, but as likely to receive […]

[…] union membership also affect wages. The estimates suggest that UK trade unions still play a non-negligible, albeit diminishing, role in wage formation. It appears that the greater impact of unobservables in determining individual union propensity concerning the second period under analysis, versus past unionisation experience, implies that those remaining in unions during (1997-2002) gain […]

We use British Household Panel Survey data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and behavioural variables (alcohol consumption and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as these are […]

[…] cycle. We analyse these stylised facts in a panel context, advancing an innovative identification strategy to disentangle age, cohort and time effects. Furthermore, we carefully model the impact of prices by modeling the user cost of durables in the light of substantial price changes for the durable commodities. Given the potential link between the […]

[…] positively correlated. These results of the GGSS shall serve as basis for further analyses on the BHPS. In my paper I analyse the data of the BHPS in order to answer the following question: Compared to my results on the impact of personality on nonresponse, do personality traits affect panel attrition in the same way?

[…] indicate the importance of education relative to social background. While education generally seems to be the more influential factor, findings also suggest that class background has considerable impact in specific locations, e.g. protecting service class offspring from working class employment. Besides these substantive interests in patterns of social mobility and factors involved in processes […]

[…] has little role. On the other hand, Davis, Faberman, Haltiwanger and Rucker (2008) and Fujita and Ramey (2007) suggest that the separation rate is countercyclical, with particular impact on changes in unemployment at the start of a downturn. Three of the first papers to apply these ideas to non-US data are Petrolongo and Pissarides […]

[…] in our estimations. Our results reveal that simple estimates of the effects of depression on IB claims and on contributions to the Exchequer are confounded substantially by observable covariates and unobservable heterogeneity. We also find the effect of depression on IB claims is only a partial assessment of the impact of depression on Exchequer contributions.