Recent changes in housing policies and their distributional impact across Europe

[…] specific housing policy instruments, housing allowance and mortgage interest tax relief, also exploring recent changes there and the motives behind these. The last part estimates the distributional impact of housing allowances and mortgage tax relief in 2016 as compared with 2007 using the European tax-benefit model EUROMOD. The research note concludes with a discussion […]

Digital television: impact on cognitive development, educational inequality and habits

This article assesses the impact of digital television on cognitive development and educational inequality, and studies whether it depends on the educational value of the alternative activities that digital television crowds out. I use heterogeneity in the timing of the television digital switchover in the different postcode areas in England to test for the […]

Transfer taxes and household mobility: distortion on the housing or labor market?

[…] the purchase price of property or land – on different types of household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule, we isolate the impact of the tax from other determinants of mobility. We compare homeowners with self-assessed house values on either sides of a cut-off value where the tax rate […]

Grandmothers’ labor supply

[…] much is known about which of these two channels is more important and how a grandchild affects the labor supply decision. In this paper, we study the impact of grandchildren on the labor supply decision of grandmothers. Using high quality data for Austria, we estimate the effect on both the extensive margin, that is […]

Grandmothers’ labor supply

[…] much is known about which of these two channels is more important and how a grandchild affects the labor supply decision. In this paper, we study the impact of grandchildren on the labor supply decision of grandmothers. Using high quality data for Austria, we estimate the effect on both the extensive margin, that is […]

Insights from a new division of the self-employed: analysis of characteristics, earnings returns and labour market transitions using the BHPS and UKHLS -PhD thesis-

[…] countries. The third and last empirical chapter of this study looks at the transitions of workers in our sample, prior to and after the economic downturn and impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the behaviour of our division groups. This chapter explores the short and long-term trends in self-employment in the UK labour […]