Tied migration and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Couples in Britain

We use unique information on ex ante migration preferences, actual migration behaviour and ex post reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. Our results indicate that for husbands, job-related migration increases the transition rate into employment but has little impact on employment stability. […]

Tied migration and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Couples in Britain

We use unique information on ex ante migration preferences, actual migration behaviour and ex post reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. Our results indicate that for husbands, job-related migration increases the transition rate into employment but has little impact on employment stability. […]

Tied migration and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Couples in Britain

We use unique information on ex ante migration preferences, actual migration behaviour and ex post reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. Our results indicate that for husbands, job-related migration increases the transition rate into employment but has little impact on employment stability. […]

Tied migration and subsequent employment: evidence from couples in Britain

We use unique information on migration behaviour and the reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. We find that fewer than 2% of couples migrate for job-related reasons, and that the majority of these move for reasons associated with the husband’s job. Estimates […]

The psychological costs of unsustainable housing commitments

We explore the impact of unsustainable housing commitments on psychological well-being using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We test the hypotheses that (i) housing payment problems, housing arrears and the threat of eviction and repossession have adverse impacts on heads of household’s psychological well-being over and above those caused by financial hardship […]

Financial capability, income and psychological wellbeing

[…] We extend existing research by (i) distinguishing between financial capability, income and economic resources within a nationally representative sample of adults in Britain; and (ii) assessing the impact of financial capability on psychological health over and above the impacts of income and economic wellbeing more generally. We find that for both men and women, […]