[…] stroke, or heart attack. Results, obtained through a combination of coarsened exact and propensity score matching, show acute health shocks significantly reduce participation, with younger workers displaying stronger labour market attachment. The impact on older, more educated, women suggests an important role for preferences, financial constraints, and intra-household division of labour determining labour supply decisions.

There is a wide variety of evidence to show that children who live in poverty are exposed to a range of risks that can have a serious impact on their mental health, including debt, poor housing, and low income. Our research found that only 1 in 10 mental health trusts see children in poverty […]

[…] that has only recently received attention in the study of policy measures aimed at supporting families with young children in their work-family life balance is its distributive impact. Are these measures used by poor and rich families alike, or is there a ‘Matthew effect’ at play, in the sense that poor families are underrepresented […]

This report defines destitution in the UK, looking at how many people are affected, who they are, and the main pathways in and out of destitution. It looks at the impact and experience of those people directly affected.

[…] country studies on scarring effects of early employment insecurity in the United Kingdom, Poland and Norway. Traditional analysis of scarring effects has favoured the analysis of the impact of the experience of unemployment on the experience of subsequent unemployment (state dependence) and the monetary costs of previous unemployment in terms of lower subsequent wages […]

This study examines the role of people’s subjective well-being in relation to one of the most important economic shocks – unemployment. It empirically investigates the impact of well-being on (i) unemployment propensity, (ii) maintaining employment and (iii) exiting from unemployment. We find that being more satisfied with life and having better mental health in […]

[…] Responsibility (OBR) has forecast PDF the level of unsecured debt to return to pre-crisis levels by the end of the decade. Within wider concerns about the possible impact of a return to such high levels of debt on the economy, there is an ongoing challenge faced by the individuals and families who have unmanageable […]

[…] at what works – and crucially what’s needed – to improve their employment prospects. And new analysis for this report finds that caring has a statistically significant impact on employment prospects from as little as five hours care provision per week, and that from 10 hours carers suffer significant detriment to their employment prospects, […]

[…] income that is taxed away through direct taxes, social insurance contributions or through benefit withdrawal when increasing labour supply (effective marginal tax rate). We also investigate the impact of reforms on poverty, income distribution as well as their first-order financial costs. We use microsimulation techniques applied to a representative sample of Lithuanian households. Our […]