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This paper investigates the impact of family income, material deprivation, maternal socio-economic status and child-rearing behaviour on an indicator of cognitive functioning, using data for children aged 6 to 17 years from the British National Child Development Study. There are large...
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The main question addressed in this paper is when and about what can accurate information concerning individuals' pasts be collected and furthermore, when is it necessary to ask people concurrently about the experiences in question? Evidence has been collected from various research studies which...
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This paper compares the ways tax and social security systems of seven European countries treat different categories of workers, especially married women in two earner households. We will discuss the tax system and the social security system, because both have an important impact on the shape of...
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This paper sets out to explore the use of panel data through an examination of a topic which is particularly suited to analysis with panel data; that of labour mobility. Labour mobility is the transition from one employment state to another over time. In this paper we will be mainly concerned...
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The paper documents the changes of job, employer and occupations in the year prior to the Wave 1 interview of the BHPS, and describes how these changes relate to various individual and job related characteristics.
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British society is said to be undergoing a period of major change. What happens to individuals, families and households as they cope with and respond to change, and as they themselves change, is the major descriptive aim of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). More importantly, the BHPS is...
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This paper discusses the comparative research process and describes issues which have been faced and lessons learnt in the process of carrying out a number of cross-national comparisons of women's employment careers. Data from a seven country comparison carried out by the ESF Scientific Network...
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This paper presents two optimising models of individual or parental educational choice, and discusses issues of identification and estimates earnings equations in the context of these models. The estimates indicate that education is endogenous for young men's earnings, but not for young women....
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This paper looks at the effect of quitting on the number of workers trained under conditions of uncertainty about future productivity when workers have both firm-specific and industry- specific skills. A new effect is found which works in the opposite direction of the undertraining result of...
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The issue of third parties' presence in face-to-face interview situations is a familiar, yet often unexamined phenomenon. Whilst there is often an implicit or explicit instruction to interviewers to interview respondents alone, there is little conclusive evidence to suggest that the presence of...
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