[…] many hours it entails. Third, we typically found no cross-partner effects on various indicators of satisfaction. The partner’s health or work status typically have no statistically significant impact on an individual’s own well-being. Fourth, the presence of children brings no increase in life satisfaction for men – and an increase in the life satisfaction […]

[…] quantification of childcare using time use data. I conclude that the childcare produced by households constitutes around 16% of GDP. As a complement to this valuation the impact that parent’s activities have on children’s activities is assessed in one chapter. This idea here is to get a substantive sense that what parents do, is […]

[…] well-being using twelve waves (1991/92 – 2002/2003) of the British Household Panel Survey. While one branch of the literature suggests that “atypical” contractual conditions have a significant impact on health and well-being, another suggests that health is damaged by adverse working conditions. As far as we are aware, previous studies have not explicitly considered […]

This report outlines the latest developments to the Departments’ Affordability Model since the last publication in December 2005. In particular, the model not only can assess the impact of additional housing supply on affordability, but also how changes in affordability feed through to future levels of homeownership, vacant houses and demolitions.

[…] offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This result is obtained while controlling for individual and sectoral observed and unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, our empirical model also controls for the impact of technological change and offshoring of materials.

[…] the earnings opportunities of mothers and the costs of raising children. We show how observed differences in these economic factors across countries explain observed different fertility and childbearing age patterns. We then use the model to predict behavioral responses to biomedical improvements in assisted reproductive technologies, and hence the impact of these technologies on fertility.

[…] 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 […]

[…] they receive less political support in countries with well-established middle class due to their distributional effects. This paper tries to answer the question what would be the impact on income distribution, e.g. in terms of inequality and poverty, of implementing a flat income tax in Western European countries. Using EUROMOD, which is a tax-benefit […]