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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 96 in total

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

    Susan Harkness

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Social Policy

  2. State Pension eligibility age and retirement behaviour: evidence from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study

    Adriaan Kalwij and Ricky Kanabar

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis

  3. In and out of unemployment - labour market transitions and the role of testosterone

    Peter Eibich, Ricky Kanabar, Alexander Plum, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Biology
    7. Genetics

  4. Worker productivity during lockdown and working from home: evidence from self-reports

    Ben Etheridge, Yikai Wang, and Li Tang

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

  5. Labour market flexibility and unemployment duration: evidence from the UK

    Silvia Avram

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings

  6. Zero-hours contracts: flexibility or insecurity? Experimental evidence from a low income population

    Silvia Avram

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Wages And Earnings

  7. Who benefits from host country skills? Evidence of heterogeneous labour market returns to host country skills by migrant motivation

    Wouter Zwysen and Neli Demireva

    1. Geography
    2. Human Capital
    3. Migration
    4. Labour Market
    5. Sociology

  8. Childcare availability and maternal labour supply in Russia

    Yuliya Kazakova

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Households
    5. Public Policy
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Caregiving

  9. Productivity effects of dengue in Brazil

    Sonia Bhalotra, Gabriel Facchini, Aline Menezes, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Health

  10. Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality

    Sonia Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Selma Walther

    1. Labour Market
    2. Family Formation And Dissolution
    3. Childbearing: Fertility

  11. The US labour force participation debacle: learning from the contrast with Britain

    Matteo Richiardi, Brian Nolan, and Lane Kenworthy

    1. Human Capital
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Economics

  12. The distribution of the gender wage gap

    Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernandez Sierra

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings

  13. Does postpartum depression affect employment?

    Maria Elena Komodromou

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis

  14. Labour outcomes and family background: evidence from the EU during the Recession

    Silvia Avram and Olga Canto

    1. Human Capital
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Social Stratification

  15. Grandmothers' labor supply

    Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Bernhard Schmidpeter, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Caregiving

  16. Job polarization, task prices and the distribution of task returns

    Chiara Cavaglia and Ben Etheridge

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings

  17. Access to and returns from unpaid graduate internships

    Angus Holford

    1. Human Capital
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Higher Education

  18. Lone parents, time-limited in-work credits and the dynamics of work and welfare

    Mike Brewer and Jonathan Cribb

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits

  19. The twin instrument

    Sonia Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Health

  20. Intended vs. unintended consequences of migration restriction policies: evidence from a natural experiment in Indonesia

    Mattia Makovec, Ririn Purnamasari, Matteo Sandi, et al.

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Human Capital
    3. Rural Economics
    4. Migration
    5. Labour Market
    6. Economics
    7. Poverty
    8. Living Standards
    9. Public Policy
    10. Income Dynamics
    11. Household Economics
    12. International Economic Relations
    13. Race Relations

  21. Non-standard work: what’s it worth? Comparing alternative measures of workers’ marginal willingness to pay

    Mark L. Bryan and Andrea Geraci

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Well Being

  22. Do parents tax their children? Teenage labour supply and financial support

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Household Economics

  23. Labour market disadvantage of ethnic minority British graduates: university choice, parental background or neighbourhood?

    Wouter Zwysen and Simonetta Longhi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Ethnic Groups
    4. Higher Education

  24. Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing

    Mark L. Bryan and Alita Nandi

    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology Of Labour
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  25. Does neighbourhood unemployment affect the springboard effect of low pay?

    Alexander Plum and Gundi Knies

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Wages And Earnings

  26. Getting back into work after job loss: the role of partner effects

    Mark L. Bryan and Simonetta Longhi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment

  27. Job loss and social capital: the role of family, friends and wider support networks

    Karon Gush, James Scott, and Heather Laurie

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Social Capital

  28. Youth employment and academic performance: production functions and policy effects

    Angus Holford

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Child Development
    4. Labour Market

  29. The scarring effect of unemployment from the early ‘90s to the Great Recession

    Alberto Tumino

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Organizations And Firms
    4. Economics

  30. A disadvantaged childhood matters more if local unemployment is high

    Wouter Zwysen

    1. Young People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Unemployment
    5. Poverty
    6. Social Mobility

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