We use unique information on ex ante migration preferences, actual migration behaviour and ex post reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. Our results indicate that for husbands, job-related migration increases the transition rate into employment but has little impact on employment stability. […]
We use unique information on ex ante migration preferences, actual migration behaviour and ex post reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. Our results indicate that for husbands, job-related migration increases the transition rate into employment but has little impact on employment stability. […]
We use unique information on ex ante migration preferences, actual migration behaviour and ex post reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. Our results indicate that for husbands, job-related migration increases the transition rate into employment but has little impact on employment stability. […]
We use unique information on migration behaviour and the reasons for migration to study the impact of tied migration on labour market outcomes among husbands and wives. We find that fewer than 2% of couples migrate for job-related reasons, and that the majority of these move for reasons associated with the husband’s job. Estimates […]
We explore the impact of unsustainable housing commitments on psychological well-being using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We test the hypotheses that (i) housing payment problems, housing arrears and the threat of eviction and repossession have adverse impacts on heads of household’s psychological well-being over and above those caused by financial hardship […]
This paper evaluates the impact of dependent interviewing (DI) on interviewer burden and data quality using qualitative data collected from a survey carried out in 2006 on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) interviewers. We find that: (i) DI has a minor effect on interviewer burden, (ii) this effect is perceived by interviewers to […]
This paper analyses the impact that local labour market conditions have on entry wages of highly educated workers in Great Britain and Finland. In both countries, workers entering the labour market in regions with (or periods of) tighter job competition obtain lower wages. Competition from employed job seekers has a negative impact on entry […]
[…] We extend existing research by (i) distinguishing between financial capability, income and economic resources within a nationally representative sample of adults in Britain; and (ii) assessing the impact of financial capability on psychological health over and above the impacts of income and economic wellbeing more generally. We find that for both men and women, […]
This Interim Report forms part of the Department’s comprehensive independent review in evaluating the impact of changes to the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) system of Housing Benefit (HB), which were introduced from April 2011. The changes to LHA were announced in the June 2010 Budget and the Comprehensive Spending Review announcement of 2010 and […]
This paper analyses the impact of the implementation of a child tax credit in Austria in 2019, both on micro and macro level. First, we assess the fiscal and distributional impact of this reform using EUROMOD. Second, we estimate labour supply impacts of the reform based on a structural discrete choice framework. Third, we […]