This chapter describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple perspectives on the distribution are provided: there is evidence about real income levels and...

Subjective wellâ€being (SWB) is increasingly used as a way to measure individual wellâ€being. Interpreted as “experienced utilityâ€, it has been compared to “decision utility†using specific experiments (Kahneman et al., 1997) or stated preferences (Benjamin et al....

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework than men may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from differences in gender identity between...

This paper presents two optimising models of individual or parental educational choice, and discusses issues of identification and estimates earnings equations in the context of these models. The estimates indicate that education is endogenous for young men's earnings, but not for young women....

This paper looks at the effect of quitting on the number of workers trained under conditions of uncertainty about future productivity when workers have both firm-specific and industry- specific skills. A new effect is found which works in the opposite direction of the undertraining result of...

The issue of third parties' presence in face-to-face interview situations is a familiar, yet often unexamined phenomenon. Whilst there is often an implicit or explicit instruction to interviewers to interview respondents alone, there is little conclusive evidence to suggest that the presence of...

The paper models the transitions rates between the three main housing tenures in Britain. "Surprises" like partnership break-up, acquisition of a partner and spells of unemployment are found to have large impacts on tenure changes. Through their effects on these transition rates, variation in...

Household labour supply models are typically estimated on data sets containing information on family consumption and male and female hours of market work. The estimating equations are consistent with a theoretical model which assumes the maximisation of a household utility function defined on...

This paper addresses the debate on class and gender by focusing on the inter-connections between social class, occupational sex segregation, sector and gender, and therefore structural features that are seen as partly independent, partly inter-connected, sources of social inequality. The...

The main question addressed in this paper is when and about what can accurate information concerning individuals' pasts be collected and furthermore, when is it necessary to ask people concurrently about the experiences in question? Evidence has been collected from various research studies which...