Web-site providing support for users of the WERS 2004 Employment Relations Survey.

Version 1.2 published April 2007

The introduction of Jobcentre Plus represented a major change in the delivery of public employment services and social security benefits in Britain. It was designed to bring benefit payments and the labour market closer together, while creating efficiencies by introducing new IT systems and...

Web-site providing support for users of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey.

In spite of legislation aimed at securing equal pay and equal employment opportunities for men and women, the gender pay gap has persisted into the twenty-first century. This study sought to clarify the causes of the gender pay gap and to assess their relative importance, so that the driving...

A 90-page guide to the analysis of the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998. The guide contains chapters on the following topics: - Necessary preparation before beginning your analysis - Finding your way around the WERS98 data files - Weighting and its implications for univariate, bivariate...

The national debt stock of the UK is rising sharply as a result of the economic crisis, and equilibrium output is falling, with the capital stock contracting. Both problems could be alleviated by the rapid introduction (but slow implementation) of a policy to extend working lives. The paper...

Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with industry level data we estimate the external return to schooling for a repeated cross-section of individuals in the UK over the period 1994-2004. We find that a one year increase in the industry average level of schooling is associated with an...

Recent time series evidence favouring a supply-side interpretation of long-run unemployment in the UK is based on the finding of cointegration between unemployment and wage pressure variables. We show that this is necessary but not sufficient. The key assumptions in recent work, that a single...