[…] 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.

[…] chances (in the areas of finance and health) with a conventional class indicator designed for this purpose (the continuous indicator in fact performs approximately as well as the categorical class indicator), and illustrates the usefulness of the continuously scaled indicator through a model of historical change in the impact of work-breaks on women’s economic resources.

[…] information on individual labour market activity both during the panel and retrospectively from labour market entry. We utilise both aspects of this data to fully explore the impact of individual heterogeneity. Our findings suggest that individual heterogeneity is of critical importance to observed labour market behaviour. We show that over 90 percent of the […]

[…] orientation of establishing the circumstances under which (or if) response variance arises, the associated issue of how it should be accommodated in analysis – primarily estimating the impact on the variance of univariate statistics – and an assessment of its likely order of magnitude. Second, there is the model-assisted orientation which attempts to decompose […]

[…] a critical, child-centred, look at current anti-poverty policies. For the empirical part of the study child-centred research methods were chosen to explore the economic, social and relational impact of poverty and social exclusion on children’s lives. Forty in-depth interviews were conducted with children living in families in receipt of Income Support. The interviews covered […]

[…] pressure, but the related material and energy flows mobilised by socio-economic activities. The question has been raised, if further economic growth could be gained with less environmental impact. Clearly, this question requires not only an in-depth understanding of the interrelationship between society and nature but also an idea about the quantity and quality of […]

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 […]