The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Industrialised Countries

[…] survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty (or ‘income’) during childhood and later-life outcomes; we do not explicitly consider the impact of other family background variables such as parental education. The general message is that growing up poor has a deleterious impact on later-life chances, and that […]

Evaluating the direct and indirect effects of a conditional income support program: the case of Progresa -PhD thesis-

[…] analyzes spillover effects, anticipation effects and direct effects of a poverty program on domestic and international migration in rural communities in Mexico. Particularly, we study the regional impact of Progresa (renamed Oportunidades) on migration. We apply difference-in-difference propensity score matching techniques to estimate the existence of spillover effects using as a control group a […]

A panel data analysis of the incidence and impact of over-education

[…] to the overeducation literature using panel data from the British Household Panel Survey. Much has been written about who is more likely to be overeducated, and the impact of being overeducated on wages, at particular points in time using cross-sectional data. Panel data allows us to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity in the determinants […]

The impact of disability benefits: a feasibility study

[…] enjoyed bilateral political support, and the only major changes (eg in 1992) have been to extend entitlement and increase expenditure. But remarkably little is known about the impact of these benefits – exactly what difference they make to claimants’ care and mobility arrangements, to their overall standard of living, and to their social inclusion […]

Gender and migration in 21st century Europe

[…] and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration. Analysing the impact of migration on women’s careers, the impact of migration on family life and gender perspectives on forced migration, the authors also examine the consequences of EU […]

The impact of parental employment: young people, well-being and educational achievement

In this groundbreaking study, Linda Cusworth explores the impact of parental employment or unemployment, on the educational and emotional well-being of their children. Using theoretical apparatus from Bourdieu and data from the youth survey of the British Household Panel Study, the research in this book analyzes the impact of parental employment on those born […]

Confronting objections to performance pay: a study of the impact of individual and gain-sharing incentives on the job satisfaction of British employees

[…] pay schemes in recent years has raised concerns about their potential detrimental effect on intrinsic job satisfaction (JS), job security and employee morale. This study explores the impact of pay incentives on the overall job satisfaction of workers in the UK and their satisfaction with various facets of jobs. Using data from eight waves […]

Measuring the impact of disability benefits: a feasibility study

[…] enjoyed bilateral political support, and the only major changes (eg in 1992) have been to extend entitlement and increase expenditure. But remarkably little is known about the impact of these benefits exactly what difference they make to claimants care and mobility arrangements, to their overall standard of living, and to their social inclusion and […]

Patterns of non-employment, and of disadvantage, in a recession

This short paper aims to contribute to the live debate about the current recession in the United Kingdom by analysing the impact of the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s on non-employment patterns among people in the main range of working ages. The implication is that the effects observed in earlier business cycles […]

The distributional impact of public health expenditure in the United Kingdom

[…] of individuals` command over resources. It focuses on non-cash income related to public health expenditure, trying to estimate the amount of such transfers and investigating their distributional impact. After a description of the United Kingdom health system, the implemented methodology is reported and discussed. The distributional impact of public expenditure for health in the […]