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

    Simonetta Longhi

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

  2. 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

  3. Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey, Wave 1, April 2020: the economic effects

    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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  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. 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

  10. 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

  11. The value of self-employment to ethnic minorities

    Malcolm Brynin, Mohammed Shamsul Karim, and Wouter Zwysen

    1. Management: Business
    2. Migration
    3. Labour Market
    4. Organizations And Firms
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Wages And Earnings
    7. Ethnic Groups

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Hebdomadal patterns of compensatory behaviour: weekday and weekend housework participation in Canada, 1986-2010

    Kamila Kolpashnikova and  Man Yee Kan

    1. Time Use
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Sociology Of Households

  16. How do participants understand and interpret questions about "retirement planning"?

    Lindsay Abbassian, Beth Dokal, Lucy Joyce, et al.

    1. Older People
    2. Pensions
    3. Psychology
    4. Labour Market
    5. Survey Methodology
    6. Household Economics

  17. Labour mobility and earnings in the UK, 1992-2016

    Fabien Postel-Vinay and Alireza Sepahsalari

    1. Management: Business
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Unemployment
    5. Organizations And Firms
    6. Economics
    7. Wages And Earnings

  18. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce poverty

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  19. Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers? A study of 6025 employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Tarani Chandola, Cara L. Booker, Meena Kumari, et al.

    1. Sociology Of Labour
    2. Labour Market
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Caregiving
    6. Biology

  20. Unpaid work and access to science professions

    Auriel M.V. Fournier, Angus Holford, Alexander L. Bond, et al.

    1. Science And Technology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Wages And Earnings
    4. Higher Education

  21. A new family equilibrium? Changing dynamics between the gender division of labor and fertility in Great Britain, 1991–2017

    Muzhi Zhou and  Man Yee Kan

    1. Demography
    2. Social Change
    3. Labour Market
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Sociology Of Households

  22. The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

    Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Social Policy

  23. 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

  24. What do we really know about the employment effects of the UK’s National Minimum Wage?

    Mike Brewer, Thomas Crossley, and Federico Zilio

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings

  25. Cohort profile: the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (The LS)

    Nicola Shelton, Chris E. Marshall, Rachel Stuchbury, et al.

    1. Statistical Analysis
    2. Demography
    3. Labour Market
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Surveys

  26. Financial disincentives to formal work: evidence from Ecuador and Colombia

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and David Rodriguez

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

  27. Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty: an adequate strategy?

    Tine Hufkens, Francesco Figari, Dieter Vandelannoote, et al.

    1. Child Development
    2. Labour Market
    3. Poverty
    4. Public Policy
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Microsimulation
    7. Caregiving

  28. Family fortunes: the persisting grandparents' effects in contemporary British society

    Min Zhang and Yaojun Li

    1. Young People
    2. Education
    3. Labour Market
    4. Life Course Analysis
    5. Social Stratification
    6. Sociology Of Households

  29. Top income adjustments and tax reforms in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo and Nicolás Oliva

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

  30. Unemployment insurance and income protection in Ecuador

    Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo

    1. Insurance
    2. Labour Market
    3. Households
    4. Unemployment
    5. Welfare Benefits
    6. Income Dynamics
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Taxation

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