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  1. Unresolved public policy challenges

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    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Households
    4. Public Policy
    5. Societies

  2. The impact of minimum wage upratings on wage growth and the wage distribution. A report prepared for the Low Pay Commission

    Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

    1. Area Effects
    2. Regional Economics
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Labour Economics
    6. Economics
    7. Public Policy
    8. Wages And Earnings

  3. What influences mothers’ decisions about returning to work after having a baby? Understanding the role of childcare in returning to employment – an Understanding Society and Coram Family and Childcare briefing

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    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Geography
    4. Labour Market
    5. Households
    6. Childbearing: Fertility
    7. Household Economics
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Sociology Of Households
    10. Caregiving

  4. Employment pathways and occupational change after childbirth

    Susan Harkness, Magda Borkowska, and Alina Pelikh

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Life Course Analysis

  5. Employment pathways and occupational change after childbirth: infographics

    Susan Harkness, Magda Borkowska, and Alina Pelikh

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Life Course Analysis

  6. Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria

    Michael Fuchs, Katarina Hollan, Katrin Gasior, et al.

    1. Public Policy
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation

  7. How did universal infant free school meals affect children's bodyweight?

    Angus Holford and Birgitta Rabe

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Public Policy
    4. Health

  8. Information, expectations and transition to higher education: final report

    Adeline Delavande and Laura Fumagalli

    1. Information Networks
    2. Young People
    3. Social Stratification
    4. Higher Education

  9. Short and long term barriers to university education in England. What do expectation data tell us?

    Laura Fumagalli

    1. Young People
    2. Economics
    3. Finance
    4. Social Stratification
    5. Higher Education

  10. The NMW/NLW and progression out of minimum wage jobs in the UK interim report: a report prepared for the Low Pay Commission

    Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Wages And Earnings

  11. Student preferences over fees, grants and loans

    Adeline Delavande, Emilia Del Bono, and Angus Holford

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Debt: Indebtedness
    4. Finance
    5. Higher Education

  12. What explains ethnic and SES gaps in degree class and dropout?

    Emilia Del Bono and Angus Holford

    1. Ethnic Groups
    2. Social Stratification
    3. Higher Education

  13. Student preferences over fees, grants and loans

    Adeline Delavande, Emilia Del Bono, and Angus Holford

    1. Debt: Indebtedness
    2. Finance
    3. Higher Education

  14. The industrial strategy: building a more productive society

    Raj Patel

    1. Area Effects
    2. Management: Business
    3. Labour Market
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy

  15. The gender pay gap in the UK: evidence from the UKHLS

    Wendy Olsen, Vanessa Gash, Sook Kim, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings

  16. The use of new technologies to measure socio-economic and environmental concepts in longitudinal studies

    Annette Jäckle, Alessandra Gaia, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Survey Methodology
    4. Surveys

  17. Internships - unpaid, unadvertised, unfair

    Rebecca Montacute

    1. Young People
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings

  18. Gender and unemployment. Analysis of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. Summary report

    Simonetta Longhi, Alita Nandi, Mark L. Bryan, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Sociology

  19. Gender and unemployment. Analysis of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. Technical report and appendices

    Simonetta Longhi, Alita Nandi, Mark L. Bryan, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Sociology

  20. Gender and unemployment. How does unemployment and job loss affect men and women?

    Simonetta Longhi, Alita Nandi, Mark L. Bryan, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Well Being
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Sociology

  21. Universal remedy: ensuring Universal Credit is fit for purpose

    Mike Brewer, David Finch, and Daniel Tomlinson

    1. Unemployment
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits

  22. The National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage and the tax and benefit system

    Mike Brewer and Paola De Agostini

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Households
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Taxation

  23. Mixing modes and measurement methods in longitudinal studies

    Annette Jäckle, Alessandra Gaia, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Information And Communication Technologies
    2. Science And Technology
    3. Economics
    4. Survey Methodology
    5. Surveys

  24. The gender pay gap

    Malcolm Brynin

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

  25. The disability pay gap

    Simonetta Longhi

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

  26. The ethnicity pay gap

    Simonetta Longhi and Malcolm Brynin

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Ethnic Groups

  27. A guide to the biomarker data in the CLOSER studies. A catalogue across cohort and longitudinal studies

    Milagros Ruiz, Michaela Benzeval, and Meena Kumari

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Health
    3. Surveys
    4. Biology

  28. Does free childcare help parents work?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

  29. Who experiences ethnic and racial harassment?

    Alita Nandi and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Area Effects
    2. Ethnic Groups
    3. Well Being
    4. Race Relations

  30. Bittersweet success? Glass ceilings for Britain’s ethnic minorities at the top of business and the professions

    Shamit Saggar, Richard Norrie, Michelle Bannister, et al.

    1. Management: Business
    2. Labour Market
    3. Ethnic Groups

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