[…] 2012 from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for Germany and from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and Understanding Society for the UK. The paper examines the impact of both (her) individual and (their) couple attributes to determine the relative structuring impact of within household inequalities on gendered economic outcomes over time. Our primary […]
[…] the opportunity to remain or return to the workforce after a health shock. This paper has two main aims. Firstly, we will investigate if and how the impact of a cancer diagnosis compares with other common health shocks on labour market outcomes. We will perform counterfactual analysis to estimate a causal impact. Secondly, we […]
[…] presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s, using a nationally representative data set. It examines the impact of individual and local labour market characteristics on the probability of unemployment spells ending with moves into full and part-time employment, self-employment and economic inactivity. The […]
[…] using samples of working adults in the United Kingdom and a number of European countries. The main objective is to determine whether or not health has an impact upon wages and whether such an impact differs by gender. While much previous work in health and labour has found that health affects worker productivity and […]
We test whether in Great Britain the recent increase in the supply of university graduates has a negative impact on their wages, and analyse to what extent the local labour market for graduates should be seen as regional rather than national. We do this by computing two measures of job competition amongst graduates: the […]
[…] simultaneous determination of union membership status and wage rates. We explore the determinants of individual union propensity and use an endogeneity correction methodology to estimate the wage impact of UK trade unions in an era of declining unionisation. The second Chapter surveys the estimation methodologies that have been employed in the union wage effects […]
Consumption taxes are only rarely assessed for their impact on the economic well-being of individuals. This paper reviews various studies on this issue. It first describes the large differences in the size and structure of these taxes among OECD countries, and then reviews the types of assumptions that are typically made when estimating the […]
This paper combines individual data from the British Household Panel Survey and yearly population estimates for England to analyse the impact of cultural diversity on individual wages and on different aspects of job satisfaction. Do people living in more diverse areas have higher wages and job satisfaction after controlling for other observable characteristics? The […]
This paper combines individual data from the British Household Panel Survey and yearly population estimates for England to analyse the impact of cultural diversity on individual wages and on different aspects of job satisfaction. Do people living in more diverse areas have higher wages and job satisfaction after controlling for other observable characteristics? The […]
[…] employment states and the design of survey fieldwork procedures, using a comparative approach based on data from the UK BHPS and Australian HILDA Survey. We simulate the impact of alternative procedures for controlling fieldwork effort on the bias and precision of empirical findings, ranging from simple summary statistics to inferences from complex dynamic modelling. […]