The severe economic crisis affecting Greece since 2009 is having an unprecedented impact in terms of job and income losses, and is widely perceived to have a comparably significant effect in terms of greater inequality and increased poverty. We provide an assessment of whether (and to what extent) the latter is the case. More […]
[…] are likely to dictate what people can and cannot do in terms of pro-environmental behaviour, despite their pro-environmental attitudes and concerns. Such constraints may have a larger impact on some household members than others. Using ‘Understanding Society’, a large multipurpose household survey for the UK, we analyse which individual and household characteristics have an […]
This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (eg, work experience, […]
[…] employability and reduced life expectancy, it does not (in the form of a poverty line at 60% of the median equivalised household income) appear to have an impact on wellbeing when the threshold was tested. Instead, multidimensional poverty – that purported by the Capabilities Approach – is a more individually relevant measure of poverty. […]
[…] individuals receive financial compensation for longer commutes. Chapter 3 considers commuting and social capital, specifically in the presence of congestion charging. Using unique data, we analyse the impact that the Western Extension Zone (WEZ) had on an individual’s stock of social capital. Following Putnam (2000), we proxy social capital by the frequency of visiting […]
[…] the debate in this area. And while there is good evidence that high-quality childcare benefits children’s development, especially children from less advantaged backgrounds, robust evidence on the impact of ECEC on parents’ employment is surprisingly limited. We also know very little about the impact of the policies to support childcare that have been introduced […]
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been […]