[…] dependent interviewing questions and of their effects. The framework facilitates the comparison of different designs and provides a guide for designing new questions. Second, I test the impact on the efficiency of data collection and respondent burden and show that different designs can have opposing effects. Third, I test the effects of dependent interviewing […]

[…] words, to what extent do the fertility decisions of successfully integrated individuals differ from those who are poorly integrated into the labour force? To account for the impact of cross-national differences in institutional settings, I contrast the continental conservative German welfare state with the liberal market economy of the UK. To account for gender-specific […]

[…] should be included in the over-sample. In this paper we draw on a wide ranging review of the literature, the results from an intensive consultation exercise, the impact of current policy concerns and priorities, existing practice and development work already carried out for Understanding Society and in its Innovation Panel to establish the precise […]

[…] prices have no effect on family stability, while unanticipated decreases are destabilizing, this paper implies that policy-makers can reduce the risk of family breakdown by easing the impact of unexpected decreases in house prices. Well-designed policies that support families with low income and high debt (e.g., mortgage interest deductibility) may be the key to […]

[…] labour supply increases by approximately 47,000 full-time equivalents. However, the effect is limited because, compared to a static scenario, the cost recovery only allows the revenue-neutral flat tax to decrease from 38.5% to 37%. Furthermore, there is little or no impact of these employment effects on the strongly regressive nature of a flat tax reform.

[…] prove to be useful when discussing the hypothetical amount of the financial incentives that firms should receive in order to be compensated (at least partially) for the impact of disabilities on absenteeism and, thus, productivity. Since disability increases absenteeism, when firms anticipate this effect in the hiring process, the discrimination suffered by people with […]

[…] empirical literature on job satisfaction has studied different dimensions (such as gender wage growth, comparison income and unemployment, and job matching), few works have analysed the potential impact of work environment on job satisfaction and the diverging effects of the working conditions and the structure of work by firm size. The purpose of this […]

[…] caution in interpretation of our findings. These are largely descriptive and point to associations that are indicative but not conclusive regarding causation. A full-blown analysis of the impact of particular policies or policy changes requires a different type of study than this one. We also point to potential extensions to the modelling approach, for […]

[…] a conceptual framework of influences on the response outcomes available for analysis. Section two develops a crossnational codeframe of response outcome codes. The last section investigates the impact that differential ways of deriving final case outcomes have on the estimated response, contact and cooperation rates. The results emphasise the importance of careful measurement of […]