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Developing expenditure questions : findings from R2 cognitive testing

D'Ardenne, Jo; Blake, Margaret - 2012

The Nuffield Foundation has funded a collaborative research team from NatCen Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Oxford and Cambridge Universities to develop a standard question or questions designed to capture household spending. This is because household spending can be an...

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Developing expenditure questions : findings from R1 cognitive testing

d'Ardenne, Jo; Blake, Margaret - 2012

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Developing expenditure questions : findings from focus groups

d'Ardenne, Jo; Blake, Margaret - 2012

Currently there is no established way to measure expenditure in the context of a general purpose survey. Therefore … collaborators from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, are looking at how best to measure expenditure in a social survey context … what issues people may have in reporting household expenditure in a social survey context. The information collected in the …

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Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, Costas; … - 2016 - This draft February 2016

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...

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Career progression, economic downturns, and skills

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

This paper analyses the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform

Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyse both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...

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The effects of social policies on the working careers of Europeans

Brugiavini, Agar; De Luca, Giuseppe; MaCurdy, Thomas E.; … - 2020

We analyse the pattern of work and other labour market states, such as unemployment and out-of-labour-force, over the life course, by making use of a long retrospective panel of older Europeans. Based on stochastic simulations of a reduced form transition probability model, we document to what...

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