The demographic and economic characteristics of older workers aged 50 years and over prior to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and how the impact of the pandemic on older workers has varied based on these characteristics.

[…] took up the early-bird offer. Our experimental and analytical approach meant that we were able to robustly attribute this reduction to the take-up of the offer. No impact on response rates was detected. We also found that although some respondents took up the offer as a result of the appeal to altruism, a higher […]

This paper explores the potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people’s perceptions of cohesion in their local communities; particularly for vulnerable groups/communities, such as ethnic minorities or those living in highly deprived neighbourhoods. To this end, we examine both trends over time in overall levels of cohesion as well as patterns of positive […]

[…] in all three domains even after controlling for parents’ socio-economic-cultural resources and other demographic and contextual factors. In addition, we find that self-employed grandparents have a strong impact on grandsons’ (albeit not on granddaughters’) likelihood of engagement in self-employment, a pattern that holds true even when parents are not self-employed. Our study shows that […]

Do print media significantly impact political attitudes and party identification? To examine this question, we draw on a rare quasi-natural experiment that occurred when The Sun, a right-leaning UK tabloid, shifted its support to the Labour party in 1997 and back to the Conservative party in 2010. We compared changes in party identification and […]