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Current search: 'Labour Market'

  1. 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

  2. Atypical work and unemployment protection in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Alberto Tumino

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Poverty
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Household Economics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

  3. Unemployment rate: how many people are out of work?

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  4. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: family relationships

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Behaviour
    10. Sociology Of Households
    11. Caregiving
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Covid 19

  5. The truth will out: understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Economic Policy
    10. Covid 19

  6. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Microsimulation
    11. Taxation
    12. Covid 19

  7. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lock-down

    Patryk Bronka, Diego Collado, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Finance
    11. Covid 19

  8. Welfare resilience in the first month of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

    Francesco Figari and Carlo Fiorio

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Wages And Earnings
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Taxation
    11. Covid 19

  9. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Living Standards
    6. Public Policy
    7. Welfare Benefits
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Health
    11. Covid 19

  10. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Microsimulation
    11. Taxation
    12. Covid 19

  11. The Covid-19 crisis response helps the poor: the distributional and budgetary consequences of the UK lock-down

    Patryk Bronka, Diego Collado, and Matteo Richiardi

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Household Economics
    8. Health
    9. Microsimulation
    10. Finance
    11. Covid 19

  12. Briefing note COVID-19 Survey: the economic effects

    Thomas F. Crossley, Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, et al.

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Savings And Assets
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Household Economics
    11. Debt: Indebtedness
    12. Health
    13. Finance
    14. Caregiving
    15. Covid 19

  13. Black, minority Britons hit hardest by COVID job losses, researchers say

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Survey Methodology
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Savings And Assets
    10. Wages And Earnings
    11. Household Economics
    12. Debt: Indebtedness
    13. Ethnic Groups
    14. Health
    15. Finance
    16. Social Stratification
    17. Covid 19

  14. Coronavirus hitting BAME and single parent families worst financially

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Survey Methodology
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Savings And Assets
    10. Wages And Earnings
    11. Household Economics
    12. Debt: Indebtedness
    13. Ethnic Groups
    14. Health
    15. Finance
    16. Social Stratification
    17. Covid 19

  15. BAME and single-parent families worst hit financially by Covid-19

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Survey Methodology
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Savings And Assets
    10. Wages And Earnings
    11. Household Economics
    12. Debt: Indebtedness
    13. Ethnic Groups
    14. Health
    15. Finance
    16. Social Stratification
    17. Covid 19

  16. A cross-national design to estimate effects of COVID-induced non-pharmacological interventions

    Dean Lillard

    1. Social Sciences
    2. Media
    3. Geography
    4. Demography
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Economics
    8. Public Policy
    9. Survey Methodology
    10. Research
    11. Health
    12. Surveys
    13. Covid 19

  17. A longitudinal analysis of ethnic unemployment differentials in the UK

    Simonetta Longhi

    1. Migration
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Ethnic Groups

  18. The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock: the distributional consequences of COVID-19

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Demography
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Survey Methodology
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Savings And Assets
    10. Wages And Earnings
    11. Household Economics
    12. Debt: Indebtedness
    13. Ethnic Groups
    14. Health
    15. Finance
    16. Social Stratification
    17. Covid 19

  19. Single mothers and lowest paid hit hardest by loss of income in Covid-19 crisis

    Thomas Crossley, Paul Fisher, and Hamish Low

    1. Lone Parents
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Poverty
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Savings And Assets
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Household Economics
    11. Debt: Indebtedness
    12. Health
    13. Finance
    14. Caregiving
    15. Covid 19

  20. Financial disincentives to formal employment and tax-benefit systems in Latin America

    María Cecilia Deza Delgado, Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo, Nicolás Oliva, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Public Policy
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation
    6. Finance

  21. Second earners and in-work poverty in Europe

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Daria Popova

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation

  22. 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

  23. Youth employment, academic performance and labour market outcomes: production functions and policy effects

    Angus Holford

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

  24. Insights 2019-20: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Social Exclusion
    4. Social Inclusion
    5. Migration
    6. Social Change
    7. Labour Market
    8. Households
    9. Public Policy
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Surveys
    15. Sociology Of Households
    16. Race Relations
    17. Social Mobility

  25. Foreword: capturing the complexity of the UK

    Michaela Benzeval

    1. Geography
    2. Social Exclusion
    3. Social Inclusion
    4. Social Change
    5. Labour Market
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Surveys
    12. Sociology Of Households
    13. Social Mobility

  26. Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom

    Marco Tosi and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Social Networks
    3. Labour Market
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Life Course Analysis
    7. Social Stratification
    8. Sociology Of Households

  27. In-work credits in the UK and the US

    Mike Brewer and Hilary Hoynes

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: evidence from England

    Alexander Plum and Gundi Knies

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

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