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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.

Occupational health inequalities and collective bargaining: a cross-national examination of the gap between migrants and citizens

  1. Laura Sochas
  2. Aaron Reeves
  3. Neli Demireva
ISER Working Paper Series, 2026-04 - August 31, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Wages And Earnings
  4. Labour Economics
  5. Migration

Identifying economic utility and social norms in the allocation of housework

  1. Danilo Cavapozzi
  2. Marco Francesconi
  3. Cheti Nicoletti
Research Paper, RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, 227/26 - August 27, 2026
  1. Labour Market
  2. Households
  3. Psychology
  4. Social Attitudes
  5. Economics
  6. Wages And Earnings
  7. Time Use
  8. Sociology Of Households
  9. Unpaid Work

Mental health and firm pay premiums

  1. Ben Etheridge
  2. Hiromi Yumoto
ISER Working Paper Series, 2026-03 - August 4, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Income Dynamics
  3. Psychology
  4. Health
  5. Wages And Earnings
  6. Well Being

Which policies can both boost growth and help people on low incomes?

  1. Raj Patel
Media - May 6, 2026
  1. Labour Market
  2. Household Economics
  3. Poverty
  4. Welfare Benefits
  5. Economics
  6. Public Policy
  7. Wages And Earnings

Pushed into the wrong job? Assessing the link between conditionality and poor quality employment

  1. Max Mosley
  2. Tom Stephens
Report - February 1, 2026
  1. Labour Market
  2. Income Dynamics
  3. Welfare Benefits
  4. Public Policy
  5. Area Effects
  6. Wages And Earnings
  7. Geography

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

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

Labour market expectations and occupational choice: evidence from teaching

  1. Joshua Fullard
Journal Article - August 1, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Economics
  3. Wages And Earnings
  4. Education
  5. Labour Economics
  6. Sociology Of Labour

The impact of a decade of digital transformation on employment, wages, and inequality in the EU: a “conveyor belt” hypothesis

  1. Matteo Richiardi
  2. Leonie Westhoff
  3. Caterina Astarita
  4. Ekkehard Ernst
  5. Clare Fenwick
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Journal Article - July 1, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Information And Communication Technologies
  3. Wages And Earnings
  4. Unemployment
  5. Human Capital
  6. Computing

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

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

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