[…] later in life. The results from the last of the three estimators, which is preferred as it uses extra information, suggest that a teen birth has little impact on a woman’s qualifications, employment or earnings when they are 30 years of age. These results contrast with previous studies that have not been able to […]
[…] are studied in order to interpret the estimated associations as causal effects. The analysis in this paper complements that in ISER Working Paper 2003-28, which studied the impact of teenage motherhood on ‘outcomes’ at age 30 using the British Cohort Study 1970 (BCS70). That study was able to use an ‘instrumental variable’ method that […]
In this article, we analyse whether family-related quits present long-term effects upon women’s careers, and the magnitude of such effects. For this purpose, the impact of family-related breaks in the first ten years of their labour careers on three measures of occupational prestige is examined, using the British Household Panel Survey. Women who are […]
[…] division of labour. Topics covered include the changing attitudes to gender roles and family life, the gendered organisational context, and recent changes in employment relations and their impact on work-life articulation. A comparative analysis of Britain, France, Norway, Finland, the United States and Portugal provides an assessment of the varying impact of state policies, […]
[…] concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could inadvertently lead to increased income inequality and poverty. This paper focuses on the impact of institutions and redistributive policies on inequality and poverty with the view of assessing whether a trade-off between better labour market performance and equity has taken […]
A large empirical literature suggests that a proportion of employees are over-educated (overqualified) for the jobs that they do. It also estimates the impact of this mismatch on wages The empirical results suggest that having more education than is needed for a job generates a premium relative to the job but at the same […]
[…] have positive entitlements, a statistical model is estimated for the probability of take-up of the entitlement. A well established result in the literature has been the positive impact of the benefit entitlement level on the claiming decision. In other words, sufficiently large levels of entitlements work as an incentive for more people to overcome […]
[…] of free school meals to children from the poorest of households, and the extent to which changes in free school meal provision leads to a regionally specific impact on child poverty due to variations of household composition within the English regions and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This paper demonstrates that, first, entitlement to […]
[…] in the future, and if so, which modes to mix and how. The aim of phase II, the object of this report, was to assess the likely impact of a switch to telephone interviewing on data quality and to investigate the causes of mode effects in order to identify ways of mitigating these. The […]
The impact of four labour market policies – employment protection legislation, minimum wages, parental leave and unemployment benefits – on productivity is examined here, using annual cross-country aggregate data on these policies and industry-level data on productivity from 1979 to 2003. We use a ‘difference-in-differences’ framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect […]