[…] mortgagors having difficulty paying for their mortgage. The share of overall income accounted for by households reporting either type of problem was relatively small, suggesting that any impact on aggregate consumer spending is likely to have been muted. The most common explanations given for debt problems were temporary cash-flow shortfalls and overspending; the most […]

The impact of parental child-rearing practices on child outcomes has been the subject of much research and debate for many years. Studies carried out within a variety of disciplines and across a number of different countries in the world have indicated that parents tend to use a different pattern of rearing their sons than […]

[…] low-income families with children. This paper uses longitudinal data collected between 1991 and 2001 to evaluate the effect of this reform on single mothers. We identify this impact by comparing changes in behavior of lone mothers to changes for single women without children. The reform led to a substantial increase in employment rates of […]

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of nonrandom selection into work. We show that worst case bounds can be informative. However, because employment rates in the United Kingdom are often low, they are not informative about changes in educational or gender wage differentials. Thus […]

Studies have shown that voluntary job-to-job changes have a positive effect on wage growth. This paper argues that the impact of a job change on wage mobility depends on the position in the wage distribution. Using panel data from the UK and Germany, we show that a change of employer results into a wage […]

[…] levels of stigma and other claim costs and non-claimants tend to be those with high levels of claim cost. A further aim is to assess the potential impact of implicit claim costs on the measurement of poverty. Implicit costs are found to be moderate for most IS recipients, typically around £3-4 per week (or […]

[…] vesting period from 10 to 5 years should increase mobility in Germany by 8%. An indexation of preserved benefits (for vested early leavers) would have a larger impact, increasing mobility by 22%. However, these increases are from low initial mobility rates. Both shorter vesting periods and an indexation of benefits would also reduce retirement […]

[…] and British household behaviour. Home-ownership has a positive effect on unemployment duration in France but no significant effect is detected in Britain. However we find a positive impact of public renters on unemployment duration in Britain. These stylised facts seems to confirm the existence of a real spillover effect between labour market and housing […]