[…] The research is motivated by two key features of the labour market: falling real earnings for low skilled, especially men, and growing earnings inequality. It will look at implications for labour supply and time use allocations within families and will also examine the impact of deteriorating economic outcomes for young adults on family living arrangements.

[…] time since arrival and generational status as proxies for acculturation and exposure to discrimination. Using data from Understanding Society this paper provides a first estimate of the impact of these two causal mechanisms on health behaviours across time and immigrant generations. We model the probability of smoking, binge drinking, walking regularly, and eating fruits […]

[…] of illnesses and steeper income gradients are observed. A two-step residual inclusion type of estimator (involving a fixed-effects income model at the first stage) shows that the individual-specific selection effects have a systematic impact in the long-run income gradients in self-reported health but not in biomarkers, highlighting the importance of reporting error in self-reported health.

[…] groups: ethnic concentration. According to theories of neighbourhood effects, neighbourhoods are spaces of interaction, as well as of transmission of beliefs and ways of doing. These might impact individuals, with a more or less coercive effect (Galster, 2012). Using data from the II Wave of the United Kingdom Housing Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) in combination […]

[…] negatively affected even before the actual financial distress is reported. These findings call for policy attention as they indicate that adaptive defence is not likely to work in the face of prolonged negative stimuli of financial distress. Detrimental impact of long-standing financial distress on mental health could be even higher than it is generally estimated.

[…] transport mode used but the consequences of commuting for overall life satisfaction and other measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB) are unclear. According to economic theory, the adverse impact of long commutes should be compensated for by the benefits they bring. The paper begins by examining the association using a six wave panel data set […]

[…] the same reform points at an even higher response, once adjustment to new rules has taken place. The purpose of the second chapter is to evaluate the impact of the Pension Credit introduction on pensioner’s take-up levels and in particular to investigate whether there is a role for complementary policies besides entitlement increase in […]