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Single women living alone in later life: evidence from Understanding Society data
How do working life and its interplay with family structures affect men’s and women’s gender role attitudes?
Using fixed effects models and longitudinal data from the British Household Panels Surveys (BHPS) and the follow-up study “Understanding Society” (UKHLS), the current study examines the impact of change in employment status and working conditions on gender role attitudes by simultaneously considering the family structure. A second research question investigates whether employment status and […]
Do green lifestyles improve life satisfaction?
[…] sacrifice more common. Self-perception of a green lifestyle was linked to higher life satisfaction, irrespective of concrete action. Bad conscience about not being green enough decreased life satisfaction, but the impact could be mitigated by having a self-perceived green lifestyle. Value-action gap for green behaviour depends on costs of green behaviour but also green preferences.
Policy impact: building a more productive society – could the industrial strategy make a difference?
Investigating pro-environmental behaviours using a multilevel modelling approach -PhD thesis-
Problem debt and low-income households
Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison
[…] and wealth transfers. Second, we evaluate redistributive effects of tax-benefit systems against the joint income-wealth distribution instead of income only. We show that expressing living standards in terms of both income and wealth results in considerable reranking of individuals, which in turn leads to a lower redistributive impact of tax-benefit systems than is traditionally considered.
Enhancing democracy: can civic engagement foster political participation?
Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison
[…] and wealth transfers. Second, we evaluate redistributive effects of tax-benefit systems against the joint income-wealth distribution instead of income only. We show that expressing living standards in terms of both income and wealth results in considerable reranking of individuals, which in turn leads to a lower redistributive impact of tax-benefit systems than is traditionally considered.