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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.

Mothers ‘take a pay cut’ if their firstborn is a daughter

  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Damian Clarke
  3. Angelina Nazarova
Media - June 15, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Household Economics
  7. Health
  8. Economics
  9. Demography
  10. Wages And Earnings
  11. Childbearing: Fertility
  12. Well Being
  13. Social Behaviour
  14. Sociology Of Households
  15. Caregiving
  16. Social Psychology

Equality at work: paternity and shared parental leave. Sixth report of session 2024–25. [House of Commons. Women and Equalities Committee]

Parliamentary Paper, HC 502 - June 10, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Public Policy
  4. Government
  5. Childbearing: Fertility
  6. Sociology Of Households
  7. Caregiving

The daughter penalty

  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Damian Clarke
  3. Angelina Nazarova
ISER Working Paper Series, 2025-03 - May 28, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Life Course Analysis
  4. Psychology
  5. Social Attitudes
  6. Household Economics
  7. Health
  8. Economics
  9. Demography
  10. Wages And Earnings
  11. Childbearing: Fertility
  12. Well Being
  13. Social Behaviour
  14. Sociology Of Households
  15. Caregiving
  16. Social Psychology

Is the school workforce biased against men?

  1. Joshua Fullard
Journal Article - May 1, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Psychology
  3. Economics
  4. Education

Epigenetic markers of adverse lifestyle identified among evening and night shift workers in two UK population-based studies: Generation Scotland and Understanding Society

  1. Paige M. Hulls
  2. Daniel L. McCartney
  3. Yanchun Bao
  4. Rosie M. Walker
  5. Frank de Vocht
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Journal Article - April 30, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Education
  4. Biology
  5. Genetics
  6. Drug/alcohol Abuse

Gender income inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: the role of government response

  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Daria Popova
  3. Irene Rioboo
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA7/25 - April 22, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Income Dynamics
  3. Microsimulation
  4. Health
  5. Covid-19
  6. Taxation
  7. Public Policy
  8. Wages And Earnings

How has gender income inequality in Ireland and the UK changed and why?

  1. Silvia Avram
  2. Karina Doorley
  3. Claire Keane
  4. Daria Popova
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA6/25 - March 27, 2025 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Income Dynamics
  3. Microsimulation
  4. Taxation
  5. Welfare Benefits
  6. Wages And Earnings

Unstable pay: new estimates of earnings volatility in the UK

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Nye Cominetti
  3. Stephen P. Jenkins
Report - March 15, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Wages And Earnings

Commuting and gender differences in job opportunities

  1. Silvia Avram
Journal Article - March 14, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Commuting
  3. Travel
  4. Demography
  5. Area Effects
  6. Regional Economics
  7. Wages And Earnings
  8. Geography
  9. Sociology

More testosterone means higher pay – for some men

  1. Peter Eibich
  2. Ricky Kanabar
  3. Alexander Plum
Media - March 13, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Economics
  3. Demography
  4. Wages And Earnings
  5. Biology
  6. Genetics

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