[…] 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 […]

[…] tax-benefit system in OECD countries notably reduces market inequality, in Brazil the government has not been able to significantly alleviate inequality and poverty. This paper investigates the impact of the government budget, particularly taxes and cash transfers, on income distribution in Brazil, and evaluates its efficiency and effectiveness in reducing inequality and poverty. The […]

[…] parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric approach is also used to analyze the impact of difficulties with the new currency on well-being. The results indicate a severe loss in well-being associated with the introduction of the new currency, with the […]

[…] lowest-low fertility, i.e. below 1.3 children per woman. In this paper we focus on the period during which such fertility levels arose in order to assess the impact of income on fertility decisions. So far, analyses have suffered from the lack of appropriate data; we create a new data set making use of two […]