[…] (IB), UK welfare reforms have sought to reduce sickness benefit claimant numbers and increase employment among this group. However, there is little objective evidence regarding the health impact of transitions to employed or unemployed status for sickness benefit claimants, or the health impact of transitions from IB to ESA. Treatment and control groups were […]

[…] force affect the labour market behaviour of the following generation. Unlike women’s own mothers, the attitudes and behaviours of mothers-in-law are not expected to have any direct impact on the attitudes of their daughters-in-law that developed during the childhood. However, mothers’ behaviour may influence the next generation of women, independently of its impact on […]

[…] understand what drives this decision, and in particular how it relates to households’ financial competence. Existing household-level studies of the equity withdrawal decision have focused on the impact of consumption-smoothing and financial efficiency motives. This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and the Understanding Society survey to analyse the impact of […]

[…] effect is explored by investigating the extent to which OLS estimates are biased by correlation between employer tenure length and unobserved job match and individual heterogeneity. The impact of variations in the quality of employer tenure data and enforcing consistency upon the tenure data over time are also addressed. Results show OLS estimates of […]

[…] employment career. This paper studies job tenure in Britain in the 1990s with particular emphasis on jobs following an unemployment spell. This allows the investigation of the impact of unemployment on subsequent job tenure. We use an independent competing risks framework with previous labour market status and the duration of the preceding unemployment spell […]

In this paper we look into the possible impact on labour force participation of two demographic variables that have undergone considerable changes in the past few decades: divorce and cohabitation. More specifically we analyse the labour force participation probabilities of men and women currently living with a partner and study the impact of a […]

In this paper we present a double selection model and a truncated double selection model for evaluating the impact of non-ignorable missing (NIM) data in social research. The substantive focus of the paper is on the analysis of the determinants of employment and earnings, an area which has received considerable attention by quantitative social […]

This article examines the impact of the Internet on the everyday lives of U.K. citizens through the integration of quantitative longitudinal time-use data and qualitative interviews. It shows that there is little significant change in people’s time use that can be associated with their acquisition of an Internet connection and demonstrates the oversimplicity of […]

This paper assesses the impact of devolution within the United Kingdom on household equality in terms of both income and social inclusion. Using British Household Panel Study data it suggests that devolution appears to have had no discernable impact on income inequality, in the two most far reaching examples of devolution i.e. Scotland and […]