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Displaying Publications 1 - 30 of 67 in total

Current search: 'Labour Economics'

  1. Does a high minimum wage make it harder for minimum wage workers to progress?

    Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

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

  2. Hours and pay insecurity in the UK labour market

    Silvia Avram

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. ‘Fair’ welfare comparisons with heterogeneous tastes: subjective versus revealed preferences

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Women legislators and economic performance

    Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min, et al.

    1. Politics
    2. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Social Policy

  9. Minimum wages and supporting wage growth

    Brian Nolan

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Microsimulation

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Essays in labour economics: school leaving, unemployment and retirement -PhD thesis-

    Alberto Tumino

    1. Older People
    2. Young People
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Economics
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Life Course Analysis

  13. 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

  14. Making work pay: a conceptual paper

    Manos Matsaganis and Francesco Figari

    1. Labour Market
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  15. Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

    Mark L. Bryan and Alex Bryson

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Wages And Earnings

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Gender wage inequality: the de-gendering of the occupational structure

    Malcolm Brynin and Francisco Perales

    1. Training: Labour Market
    2. Labour Market
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Wages And Earnings

  19. Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing

    Alita Nandi and Mark L. Bryan

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

  20. The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK

    Andrea Salvatori

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Wages And Earnings
    3. Higher Education

  21. A bird’s eye view on 20 years of tax-benefit reforms in Belgium

    André Decoster, Sergio Perelman, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  22. The effects of the EU equal-treatment Directive for fixed-term workers: evidence from the UK

    Andrea Salvatori

    1. Law And Legislation
    2. Labour Economics
    3. Wages And Earnings

  23. Secondary earners and fiscal policies in Europe

    Olga Rastrigina and Alina Verashchagina

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Taxation

  24. Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

    Mark L. Bryan and Alex Bryson

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Wages And Earnings

  25. Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

    Mark L. Bryan and Alex Bryson

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Wages And Earnings

  26. The impact of free, universal pre-school education on maternal labour supply

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

    1. Education
    2. Child Development
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Caregiving

  27. The effect of occupation on poverty among ethnic minority groups

    Malcolm Brynin and Simonetta Longhi

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Ethnic Groups

  28. The effect of occupation on poverty among ethnic minority groups - summary

    Malcolm Brynin and Simonetta Longhi

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Ethnic Groups

  29. The joint decision of labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints

    Francesco Figari and Edlira Narazani

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Household Economics
    3. Microsimulation
    4. Caregiving

  30. Back to Bentham: should we? Large-scale comparison of decision versus experienced utility for income-leisure preferences

    Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, and Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Labour Economics
    2. Income Dynamics
    3. Well Being

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