[…] 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 […]