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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Do high minimum wages harm the progression of minimum wage workers? Evidence from the United Kingdom

  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
Journal Article - January 28, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Economics
  3. Public Policy
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Labour Economics

Gender and parenthood differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK

  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
Journal Article - December 1, 2024
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Wages And Earnings
  4. Childbearing: Fertility
  5. Labour Economics

Gender differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK

  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA4/23 - March 21, 2023 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Economics
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Childbearing: Fertility
  6. Sociology Of Labour
  7. Caregiving

Gender differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK

  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Susan Harkness
  3. Daria Popova
ISER Working Paper Series, 2023-02 - March 7, 2023 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Wages And Earnings
  4. Childbearing: Fertility
  5. Labour Economics

Sibling moderation of young adult psychological distress during a crisis: evidence from the United Kingdom’s first Covid-19 lockdown

  1. Lisa Waddell
  2. Susan Harkness
ISER Working Paper Series, 2022-08 - August 30, 2022 - download  
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Public Policy
  5. Well Being
  6. Young People
  7. Sociology Of Households
  8. Social Psychology

The accumulation of economic disadvantage: the influence of childbirth and divorce on the income and poverty risk of single mothers

  1. Susan Harkness
Journal Article - August 15, 2022
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Lone Parents
  3. Household Economics
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Family Formation And Dissolution
  6. Childbearing: Fertility

Single mothers’ income in twelve rich countries: differences in disadvantage across the distribution

  1. Susan Harkness
Journal Article - July 15, 2022
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Income Dynamics
  4. Social Policy
  5. Lone Parents

Single mothers’ income in twelve rich nations: differences in disadvantage across the distribution

  1. Susan Harkness
ISER Working Paper Series, 2022-06 - May 16, 2022 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Income Dynamics
  4. Social Policy
  5. Lone Parents

The accumulation of disadvantage: how motherhood and relationship breakdown influence married and single mothers’ economic outcomes

  1. Susan Harkness
ISER Working Paper Series, 2022-03 - February 11, 2022 - download  
  1. Income Dynamics
  2. Lone Parents
  3. Household Economics
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Family Formation And Dissolution
  6. Childbearing: Fertility

COVID-19 lockdowns saw couples share housework and childcare more evenly – but not for long

  1. Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez
  2. Anette Eva Fasang
  3. Susan Harkness
Media - January 25, 2022
  1. Households
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Covid-19
  5. Public Policy
  6. Demography
  7. Education
  8. Time Use
  9. Sociology Of Households
  10. Caregiving

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