computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … diffusion of technologies on wages in the cross section which is not robust to endogeneity and fixed effects; (iii) at the firm … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …

into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK. We also examine whether … there are differences in broader measures of well-being such as self-perceived health and mental health. We find that the … significant differences in terms of occupation, earnings and self-perceived health and mental health. It is not clear why this …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … diffusion of technologies on wages in the cross section which is not robust to endogeneity and fixed effects; (iii) at the firm … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent and transitory income shocks. We find some partial insurance of permanent … income shocks with more insurance possibilities for the college educated and those nearing retirement. We find little …

This paper uses panel data on household consumption and income to evaluate the degree of insurance to income shocks … cases of self-insurance and the complete markets assumption. We assess the degree of insurance over and above self-insurance … conventional demand analysis rather than reduced form imputation procedures. Our results point to some partial insurance but reject …

lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at … the cost of a lower employment rate. …

insurance across individuals and across the lifecycle. We embed these alternative roles in a lifecycle model, allowing us to …-individual redistribution and between- and within-individual insurance. These components are distinguished from perspective of the start of … credit (WFTC) reform of 1999 and the universal credit (UC) reform that began in 2013. Our main conclusions are that insurance …

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …