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We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after completing their first degree, and the return to this internship experience 3 years later in terms of...
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Following theories of social and economic identity, we use representative data containing measures of personal identity to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction, job-related anxiety and depression, and life...
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We compare two alternative ways of measuring workers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for four non-standard working arrangements: flexitime, part-time, night work, and rotating shifts. The first method is based on job-to-job transitions within a job search framework, while the second is based...
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This paper combines individual data from the British Household Panel Survey and yearly population estimates for England to analyse the impact of cultural diversity on individual wages and on different aspects of job satisfaction. Do people living in more diverse areas have higher wages and job...
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We analyse the results of experiments on aspects of the design of questionnaire and interview mode in the 2009 wave of the new UK Understanding Society panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job- and life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, the mode of...
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extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability …
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We investigate the nature and origin of comorbidity, defined as the tendency of members of marital couples to display correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and...
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disability benefit (£28) or total public support (£47) received. Estimated costs rise strongly with the severity of disability …
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, but its potential contribution to social science research is less certain. We focused on disability, which results from … and 3 of the UK Understanding Society panel survey as our baseline, we estimated predictive models for disability 2 … accounting for the longitudinal nature of observed disability outcomes and measurement error in in SAH and biomarkers. Although …
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history of disability or major chronic health condition at baseline. A latent variable structural equation model is used to … characteristics, in determining the individual's disability state and health service utilisation five years later. We find that … baseline health affects future health service utilisation very strongly, via functional disability as a mediating outcome. Our …
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