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Permanent and transitory wage inequality of British men 1975-2001 : year, age and cohort effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor); … - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings : a study of British women 1975 - 2001

Connolly, Sara (contributor); Gregory, Mary (contributor) - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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Born to be mild? : Cohort effects don't (fully) explain why well-being is U-shaped in age

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2007

The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish between two potential explanations of this shape: a pure life-cycle or aging effect, and a fixed...

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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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Wages, hours and human capital over the life cycle

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000

We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing, (c) a post...

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The labour market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle : evidence from two British cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2015

Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....

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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry

Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Portes, Jonathan - 2021

I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...

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