The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young people’s educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991-95) of the British Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of […]

[…] populations ‘at risk’ to become lone parents. It is rates of partnership dissolution, out-of- partnership first birth and new partnering by lone mothers which have the major impact on the percentage of families with dependent children who are headed by lone parents. The primary focus of the analysis is on examining variation in these […]

We use two measures of job insecurity and follow their changes over time. First, we analyse the impact of unemployment on earnings on the basis that the cost as well as the probability of unemployment may be the cause of insecurity. Since the probability of becoming unemployed exhibits no secular trend over the last […]

[…] the importance of new information in decisions concerning partnership dissolution. Measures of a couple’s own expectations concerning their financial situation over the coming year have been used in conjunction with realised changes to gauge the impact of unexpected changes. The study also finds that the risk of partnership dissolution increases with the number of children.

[…] of older persons. For the duration analysis, a distinction is made between various exit paths from work. The results indicate that the social security or occupational pension schemes have a strong impact on the age a person leaves the labour force for retirement. Pension incentives can less explain the moves into other states of non-employment.

[…] mobility. Our findings suggest that the unemployed are more likely to move than employees. This supports the classical economic hypothesis that individuals move to escape unemployment, and suggests that the unemployed are not immobile. A desire to move motivated by employment reasons has the single largest positive impact on the probability of moving between regions.

[…] mobility may provide an inappropriate picture of career mobility. Third, we find that the average male and female quit and promotion probabilities are remarkably similar, but there are significant gender differences in layoff probabilities. Fourth, we find significant gender differences in the impact of variables such as union coverage, occupation and presence of young children.