This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates for covered union member and covered non-member wage effects in Great Britain. Cross-sectional estimates showed covered union members received a premium of about 10 percent over other workers. These estimates were considered to be...

Britain has always been one of the most important destinations for Irish emigrants. For information on their experience as immigrants we have two main sources: the personal experience of anecdote, journalism and other writing on the one hand, and Census (and more recently Labour Force Survey)...

The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young people's educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991-95) of the British Household Panel Study. Mother's education is found to...

This paper provides an analysis of people's reported reasons of why they go out to work. It comprises descriptive statistics and cross tabulations, analysing incentive responses by a range of socio-demographic and employment related variables.

This paper describes how the 1994/95 Family Expenditure Survey (FES) is used to produce three of the four datasets that act as microdata input for POLIMOD. Variables used by POLIMOD are defined in terms of the FES datasets which are available through MIMAS, the national computer service run by...

This paper explores the short-term financial implications of abolishing earnings replacement social security benefits and relying on the system of means tested benefits to replace them.

This paper deals with the existence of educational mismatch and its relationship with internal labour markets in Spain. The empirical work focuses on two related topics: the number of promotions and the subjective probability of being promoted are analysed in order to know whether the mismatch...

The paper investigates the role of multi-level structures in poverty analysis based on household level data. We demonstrate how multi-level models can be applied to standard poverty analysis and highlight its usefulness in terms of assessing the extent community characteristics matter in...

This paper provides new evidence about income mobility and poverty dynamics in 1990s Britain using data from the first four waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). After describing our data and definitions used (Section 2), we document the degree and pattern of income mobility...