Returns to job mobility: the role of observed and unobserved factors

[…] are at risk of job mobility. Good matches may lead to internal mobility (promotions) while bad matches lead to permanent separations from firms. Typically, analyses of the impact of job mobility on wages focus either on moves within a firm, or between firms, making it difficult to compare changes in wages associated with each […]

Returns to job mobility: the role of observed and unobserved factors

[…] are at risk of job mobility. Good matches may lead to internal mobility (promotions) while bad matches lead to permanent separations from firms. Typically, analyses of the impact of job mobility on wages focus either on moves within a firm, or between firms, making it difficult to compare changes in wages associated with each […]

Returns to job mobility: the role of observed and unobserved factors

[…] are at risk of job mobility. Good matches may lead to internal mobility (promotions) while bad matches lead to permanent separations from firms. Typically, analyses of the impact of job mobility on wages focus either on moves within a firm, or between firms, making it difficult to compare changes in wages associated with each […]

Dynamics of Early Cognitive and Behavioural Development

[…] income group in cognitive and behavioural development emerge by the child’s third birthday and persist at age 5. It estimates a dynamic production function model for the impact of ‘what parents do’ in terms of educational activities and parenting style on cognitive development up to age 5. Using these estimates, it appears that part […]

The impact of job loss on family mental health

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of job loss on family mental well-being. Negative income shock due to job loss can affect the mental health status of the individual who directly experiences such displacement, as well as the psychological well-being of her/his partner; also, job loss may have a significantly […]

Lifecourse pathways and housework time: Australia and the United Kingdom

[…] In this paper we examine data from the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) to investigate the impact of lifecourse pathways on domestic labour time. Our aim is to, first use HILDA to identify the joint influence of unobserved factors on the processes described […]

Can CASP scores predict mortality in BHPS sample?

[…] indications are that the quality of life might actually improve in the early old age. Although, the majority of the research effort is directed towards assessing the impact of longevity on the quality of life, the complement of that research question, whether the quality of life impacts longevity is equally interesting. To date, that […]

The impact of work-related training on employee earnings: evidence from Great Britain

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey for the years 1998-2005, this study estimates the impact of work-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence in support of […]

Too rich to do the dirty work? Job quality, search and wealth

This paper uses panel data on jobs and windfalls to investigate the impact of wealth on job choices in a framework of multidimensional jobs. In a labour market characterised by informational frictions, windfalls (lottery wins, inheritance…) are expected to affect job durations differentially depending on job quality (here measured by subjective job satisfaction). The […]

Mixed signals: to what extent does wage scarring vary with the characteristics of the local labour market? -preliminary draft, do not quote-

Continuous work-life histories are constructed using matched BHPS-LFS data, in order to test for regional variation in the impact of unemployment experience on future wage growth. The main hypothesis under test is whether unemployment spells experienced in high unemployment regions are seem by future employers as more a characteristic of the region than a […]