[…] examines the incidence of loneliness by gender over the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic among persons aged 70 and above in the UK, and the impact of changing social networks and perceived social support on the new occurrence of loneliness. Research Design and Methods: Participants (N=1,235) aged 70 and over with no […]
Policy-makers wanting to support child development can choose to adjust the quantity or quality of publicly funded universal pre-school. To assess the impact of such changes, we estimate the effects of an increase in free pre-school education in England of about 3.5 months at age 3 on children’s school achievement at age 5. We […]
[…] and recovery. The strongest predictor of wellbeing during the lock down, was the baseline score, with the counterintuitive finding that for those will pre-existing poor wellbeing, the impact of pandemic restrictions on mental health were minimal, but for those who had previously felt well, the restrictions and the impact of the pandemic on well-being […]
[…] of training takes place either at the workplace or at the employer’s training centre, and that most training is paid for by employers. We also estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages. We find that employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with […]
[…] of training takes place either at the workplace or at the employer’s training centre, and that most training is paid for by employers. We also estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages. We find that employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with […]
In this paper we investigate the impact of the print media on attitudes to European integration and European Monetary Union during the General Election campaign in Britain in 2001. We find that newspapers do have an impact on attitudes to Europe, but that these effects are relatively small. Identification with a political party is […]
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two ‘treatment groups’ for estimating the impact of the new minimum wage – those workers […]
The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of the imputation procedures adopted in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) on the quality of the information about income variables. We evaluate the imputation methods adopted in the ECHP by looking for systematic differences in the distribution of income across different types of […]
[…] of training takes place either at the workplace or at the employer’s training centre, and that most training is paid for by employers. We also estimate the impact of training – controlling for its financing method – on wages. We find that employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with […]
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two ‘treatment groups’ for estimating the impact of the new minimum wage – those workers […]