Most previous empirical studies of individual migration choice analyze the reasons associated with out-migration from an origin location. In contrast, we model the migration decision within the context of potential destinations, using British panel data over the period 1991-2003. Contrary to...

We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyse whether employed and unemployed job seekers are substitutes by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly collect information on job search activities of...

This paper analyses and describes the distribution of earnings at the time of the Wave 1 interview of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), and provides a breakdown of gross weekly and gross hourly earnings by individual, job and regional labour market characteristics.

This analysis provides information on the employment and household circumstances of homeworkers in Britain in 1991. The extent of homeworking in Britain is reported with those working at home being distinguished from those working from home. For the purposes of this report it is the former group...

This paper traces the self-employment story in Britain from 1960 to the present and, using lifetime employment history data from the British Household Panel Survey, examines changes in the flows of individuals into and out of self-employment. The data suggest that the large increase in...

Using data for 1991 to 1997 from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this research investigates the reasons to move house and the extent and determinants of house moves. In particular, we examine the relationships between labour market dynamics and residential mobility. Panel data allow...

This paper uses panel and retrospective life history data from an important new data source the British Household Panel Survey to establish some stylised facts about the unemployment experiences of men. In particular, we investigate the proportion of the sample who suffer from repeated...

Self-employment is receiving increasing attention in the economics literature, due at least in part to the growth in the number of self-employed through the 1980s. Indeed, self- employment is now widely regarded as a distinct labour market state as opposed to a form of paid employment. Given...

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.

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...