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 […]

(Non)persistent effects of fertility on female labour supply

[…] fertility levels. Despite a widely-documented reduction of female labour supply around childbirth, using the SHIW we find that this effect dissipates over time, with some signs of penalties relating to job quality and careers. Results are confirmed by exploiting the Birth Survey, with insights of a different impact according to the age of the child.