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Softening up while abroad. Soft skills and international student mobility

Soft skills are important determinants of labour market outcomes. Existing studies have underscored their significance, emphasized their malleability during young adulthood and their persistent undersupply in the labour market. Despite these findings, the production function of soft skills remains under explored. This paper investigates whether international student mobility, during university...

Presented by: Luca Favero (ISER, University of Essex)

Venue: 2N2.4.16 (to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk)

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UKMOD country report 2021-2027

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA4/24 - March 25, 2024 - download  

1. Microsimulation
2. Taxation
3. Welfare Benefits

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Assessing bias prevention and bias adjustment in a sub-annual online panel survey

Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2024-04 - March 25, 2024 - download  

1. Surveys
2. Survey Methodology
3. Health
4. Covid-19

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Outside the box? – Women’s individual poverty risk in the EU and the role of labour market characteristics and tax-benefit policies

ISER Working Paper Series, 2024-02 - March 21, 2024 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Microsimulation
3. Poverty
4. Taxation
5. Welfare Benefits

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Valuing subjective well-being benefits from leisure activities: informing post-Covid public funding of arts, culture and sport

Journal Article - March 1, 2024

1. Psychology
2. Health
3. Covid-19
4. Economics
5. Public Policy
6. Well Being
7. Arts
8. Sport

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Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers, children, and employers at the same time?

Journal Article - March 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Childbearing: Fertility
3. Child Development

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Firm heterogeneity and the aggregate labour share

Journal Article - March 1, 2024

1. Labour Market
2. Economics
3. Wages And Earnings
4. Labour Economics
5. Organizations And Firms

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Socialization disrupted: the intergenerational transmission of political engagement in immigrant families

Journal Article - March 1, 2024

1. Life Course Analysis
2. Area Effects
3. Geography
4. Migration
5. Social Stratification
6. Politics
7. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
8. Ethnic Groups
9. Sociology Of Households
10. Sociology

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Health Partnerships in Action: Seminar Series Healthwatch Essex: Vision, mission, work and impact

Presented by: Sam Glover, Chief Executive of Healthwatch Essex

Venue: Online and University of Essex CTC 2.02

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The economic value of childhood socio-emotional skills

ISER Working Paper Series, 2024-01 - March 11, 2024 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Psychology
4. Economics
5. Child Development
6. Social Behaviour
7. Human Capital

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Working Towards Inclusivity in Mental Health

Presented by: MiSoC with Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing, University of Essex

Venue: One Colchester Community Hub, 4-6 Long Wyre Street Colchester CO1 1LH

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Professor Emilia Del Bono awarded Fellowship to Academy of Social Sciences

President of the Academy, Will Hutton, praises new cohort of Fellows for furthering our “understanding in tackling a wide range of societal challenges”

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Outside the box? – Women’s individual poverty risk in the EU and the role of labour market characteristics and tax-benefit policies

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA3/24 - March 3, 2024 - download  

1. Labour Market
2. Microsimulation
3. Poverty
4. Taxation
5. Welfare Benefits

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Youth Evidence Base research report published by Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Findings show benefits of youth provision on physical health and wellbeing, pro-social behaviours and education

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Attenuation and reinforcement mechanisms over the life course

CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA2/24 - February 27, 2024 - download  

1. Microsimulation
2. Life Course Analysis
3. Health
4. Economics

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The unexplored impacts of international students – UK in a changing Europe

New study finds increasing numbers of international students have had no detrimental effects on the economic outcomes of British students.

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New report reveals UK’s ‘precarious middle incomers’ with insecure jobs and insecure housing

Study led by Professor Donald Hirsch uses Understanding Society data to reveal the situation for middle third in income distribution

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Workforce quality in early years interventions: Evidence from a large-scale home visiting programme

Targeted early years programmes can have significant benefits for children's development; however, there are many examples of early interventions that have failed to live up to their promise, particularly when delivered at scale. Understanding the inputs into a successful early years programme is therefore essential to reform existing interventions and...

Presented by: Christine Farquharson, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Venue: In person - to join us online, please contact the seminar series organisers at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.

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Assessing the impact of caregiving for older parents on caregivers’ health: initial health status and trajectories of physical and mental health among midlife caregivers for parents and parents-in-law in Britain

Journal Article - February 1, 2024

1. Older People
2. Psychology
3. Health
4. Demography
5. Well Being
6. Time Use
7. Sociology Of Households
8. Disability
9. Caregiving

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The impact of religious involvement on trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness: evidence from two British panels

Journal Article - February 1, 2024

1. Societies
2. Social Behaviour
3. Social Capital
4. Ethnic Groups
5. Religion