Self-employment is receiving increasing attention in the economics literature, due at least in part to the growth in the number of self-employed through the 1980s. Indeed, self- employment is now widely regarded as a distinct labour market state as opposed to a form of paid employment. Given...

What is the nature of women's part-time employment in the European Union when distinguishing four regimes, ie. the gender roles, the responsive firms, the secondary labour markets and the optimal staff? Statistical analyses were carried out, using the 2nd European Survey on Working Conditions...

We investigate the lifetime incidence of single motherhood and the stepfamily formation in Great Britain using both retrospective and panel information contained in the British Household Panel Study, 1991-94. Our analysis indicates that about 40 percent of mothers will spend some time as a...

The analysis contributes to the economic theory of household formation decisions, deriving predictions about the impact of the price of housing, young adults' income and parental income on the probability that a young adult lives away from hisher parents. It uses longitudinal data on a cohort of...

This study reveals the longer term consequences of redundancy, shown to include discontinuous employment, deskilling and significant movement down the earnings distribution. Redundancy is studied within the wider and more general context of occupational change and earnings growth, as revealed in...

This paper discusses the implications of moving from a paper questionnaire to a CAPI mode of data collection in the context of a longitudinal panel survey. The paper reports on the development work carried out for the British Household Panel Study (BHPS),the problems faced in making the...

The development of preventive health strategies for the elderly has been hampered by the view that most modifiable risk factors have already had their full effects by the time individuals reach old age. To gain some insight into the processes governing health changes in older age-groups, new...

We apply optimal matching techniques to class careers from age 15 to age 35 for two moderately large samples, as a means of exploring the utility of this sequence-oriented approach for the analysis of work-life social mobility. We first apply multi-dimensional scaling techniques to the...

This paper uses the first four waves (1991-4) of the British Household Panel Survey to chart patterns of labour market transition for men and women. We examine movements into and out of part-time employment, full-time employment, unemployment and out of the labour force. In particular, we...

The paper argues that the study of household allocations has relevance beyond that of marital relations and the welfare of women and children in families. It has a role to play in the debate on micro-macro links in sociology and therefore as a means of linking the private and public domains. The...