In 1999, nearly two-fifths of births in Britain were outside marriage. This study estimates the impact of employment opportunities in the local labour market on the probability that a childless never married woman has a birth outside marriage. It uses the unemployment rate in the travel-to-work area in which the woman lives as the […]

[…] experiences. This paper demonstrates the value of focusing on transitions between employment and non-employment (as opposed to tracking transitions in and out of unemployment) when examining the impact of the flexible labour market on earnings and poverty. We also examine the consistency of individual employment histories, and propose strategies for dealing with inconsistencies in […]

This paper analyses the economic impact of becoming disabled for British working-age men. The data is from the five eight waves (1991/8) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Cross-sectional evidence shows that the income of disabled working-age men is substantially lower than non-disabled working-age men. However, analysis of longitudinal data indicates that the […]

We examine the impact of moving home, the distance moved and reasons for moving on both household income and labour market earnings for a representative sample of individuals using panel data. Our results suggest that there are monetary returns to migration which apply to both household income and labour market earnings. However, not all […]

[…] of Social Policy at the University of Bath provides a critical summary of recent research on families, focusing on lone parents and low-income couples with children. The three main substantive topics covered are family patterns and dynamics; poverty and living standards; and employment patterns, barriers to work and the impact of welfare to work programmes.

[…] among young people. A conditional fixed effects multinomial logit model is employed to analyse the implications of structural economic change and socio-demographic trends, in particular their disproportionate impact on young cohorts. We find that young cohorts will increasingly choose to rent privately as an alternative to owner occupation during the early stages of their […]

The impact of response measurement error in duration data is investigated using small parameter asymptotic approximations. The change in the form of duration dependence in the relevant statistical functions is characterized and shown to be closely related with the elasticity properties of the density and survival functions of the error-free duration. The general effects […]

We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search, and that job search intensity, and direct […]