This paper examines the effect of lifelong learning on men's employment and wages. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, a variant of the mover-stayer model is developed in which hourly wages are either taken from a stationary distribution (movers) or are closely related to the...

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people’s lives.  But can they?  In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people.  We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents...

presentation at NIESR workshop "Understanding and influencing young people's early labour market experiences", London

presentation at the Franco-Swedish Program in Philosophy and Economics Well-Being workshop.

Seminar at NIESR