Most empirical studies of savings behaviour that explicitly take account of the influence of uncertainty consider for identiï¬cation data that describe the evolution of circumstances observed during an appreciable period of the life-course. Here we report results obtained for a dynamic...

  This paper describes a structural dynamic microsimulation model that generates individualspeciï¬c data over a range of demographic and economic characteristics at annual intervals overthe life-course. The model is speciï¬cally designed to analyse the distributional implications of policy...

This paper explores the school-to-work transition in the UK with the aim of achieving a richer understanding of individuals\\\' choices and activities in the ve years after�reaching school-leaving age. Through the technique of `optimal matching', we assess the�degree of similarity between...

presentation at Royal Economic Society 2012 conference, Cambridge

Immigration has been central in recent UK policy debates and has attracted significant concern over its possible adverse effect on labour market outcomes. This paper contributes to the evidence on this issue by presenting initial results on the impact of migration inflows on the claimant count...

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

1.       The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) conducted a Section 31 Assessment of Her Majesty’s Treasury’s 2010 Spending Review to assess to what extent and in what manner HM Treasury complied with the race, disability and gender equality duties in place during the 2010...

Seminar at NIESR

presentation at Joint East Asian Social Policy Research Network/Social Policy Association 2012 conference, York

presentation at ISER workshop "Growing up in recession Britain", London���