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In or out? : poverty dynamics among older individuals in the UK

Kanabar, Ricky - 2016

Using the largest household panel survey Understanding Society, this paper investigates low income dynamics among pensioner households in the UK controlling for biases due to initial conditions and non-random survey attrition. Estimation results indicate the presence of a correlation between...

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Retirement and cognitive abilities

Tumino, Alberto - 2016

This paper investigates how retirement influences the cognitive abilities of British older workers. The analysis …. Consistent with the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, we show that retirement induces cognitive decline, although the relationship … that maintaining a mentally engaging and stimulating life-style during retirement contributes to the cognitive health of …

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Where you go depends on where you come from : the influence of father's employment status on young adult's labour market experiences

Zwysen, Wouter - 2013

The transmission of economic (dis-)advantage over time should take into account the probability of employment as well as employment conditions, especially given the recent increase in the proportion of non-working people. We study the effect of young people experiencing their father not working...

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The scarring effect of unemployment from the early '90s to the Great Recession

Tumino, Alberto - 2015

which unemployment experiences have a scarring effect on British men during the Great Recession. Second, it provides an … insight into the relation between true state dependence and the business cycle by investigating the role of local unemployment … in affecting the persistence of unemployment incidence and by analysing the dynamics of unemployment scarring in the last …

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Friends' networks and job finding rates

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2011

interactions ; unemployment ; friendship ties …

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Youth employment and academic performance : production functions and policy effects

Holford, Angus - 2015

This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the effect of part-time employment and latent endogenous...

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Maternity leave in the context of couples : the impact of both partners' characteristics and employment experiences on mothers' re-entry into the labour market

Hoherz, Stefanie - 2014

results concerning experiences of unemployment for the male partner show that mothers try to compensate uncertainties with …

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Diverse disability

Berthoud, Richard - 2014

Policy has long been based on the assumption that disabled people are either capable, or incapable, of work. This paper extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability employment penalty varies by number, type, severity and...

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Labour market disadvantage of ethnic minority British graduates : university choice, parental background or neighbourhood?

Zwysen, Wouter; Longhi, Simonetta - 2016

We compare school-to-work transitions of British graduates belonging to ethnic minorities to those of white British. Six months after graduation ethnic minorities are substantially less likely to be employed than white British even after accounting for parental background, local area...

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Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time?

Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2012

This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model the joint probability to return to work and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the...

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