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Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities : increasing separation between poor and rich
Musterd, Sako; Marcińczak, Szymon; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015
Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428229
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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335085
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The effects of in-work benefit reform in Britain on couples : theory and evidence
Francesconi, Marco (contributor); Rainer, Helmut (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635400
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Assessing the importance of male and female part-time work for the gender earnings gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen (contributor); Smith, Peter N. (contributor) - 2007
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637265
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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?
Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637282
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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain : evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754935
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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755936
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Intrafamily resource allocations : a dynamic model of birth weight
Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Ermisch, John (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758952
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Are children decision-makers within the household?
Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - 2008
Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the "caring preferences" of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759861
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Am I missing something? : the effects of absence from class on student performance
Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor);  … - 2008
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760329