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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education

Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...

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Heterogeneity in graduate earnings by socio-economic background

Crawford, Claire; Vignoles, Anna - 2014

Education is often regarded as a route to social mobility. For this to be the case, however, the link between family background and adult outcomes must be broken (or at least reduced) once we take account of an individual's education history. This paper focuses on individuals who have completed...

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The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic

Banks, James; Marmot, Michael G.; Oldfield, Zoë; … - 2006

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Labour supply and taxation

Meghir, Costas (contributor); Phillips, David (contributor) - 2008

hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the … form a discrete participation model for both married and single men based on the numerous reforms over the past two decades … in the UK. We find that the participation of low education men is somewhat more responsive to incentives than previously …

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Intergenerational income persistence within families

Belfield, Chris; Crawford, Claire; Greaves, Ellen; … - 2017

intergenerational income persistence and has a stronger effect for the later cohort. Finally, men from higher-income backgrounds are …-of-work men in the analysis increases the estimates of intergenerational income persistence. …

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The distribution of discrimination in immigrant earnings : evidence from Britain 1974-1993

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; Roche, Maurice J. - 1997 - Version 4.11

This paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings discrimination between natives and migrants. The key result is that the main source of discrimination is ethnicity rather than migrant status per se. This paper differs from the conventional focus in studies of...

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne (contributor); … - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the distributional impact of increases to out-of-work transfers, increases to work-contingent transfers, and increases in higher rates of income tax over the whole of life. We find that, in contrast to what is implied by standard snapshot analyses, increases to...

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Mobility and the lifetime distributional impact of tax and transfer reforms

Levell, Peter; Roantree, Barra; Shaw, Jonathan - 2016

The distributional impact of proposed reforms plays a central role in public debates around tax and transfer policy. We show that accounting for realistic patterns of mobility in employment, earnings and household circumstances over the life-cycle greatly affects our assessment of the...

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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Dearden, Lorraine (contributor); Ferri, Javier (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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