Using data for 1991 to 1997 from the British Household Panel Survey we investigate the incidence of housing finance problems, evictions and repossessions. Previous research on repossessions and problematic housing debt has focused on cross-sectional data. This paper contributes uniquely to the...

This paper investigates a problem of 'state dependency'. People who have been unemployed in the past are much more likely than others to become unemployed in the future. But is it unemployment itself that causes future unemployment or is there something else, some measured or unmeasured form of...

To minimise nonresponse bias most large-scale social surveys undertake nonresponse weighting. Traditional nonresponse weights adjust for demographic information only. This paper assesses the effect and added value of weights based on fieldwork process data in the European Social Survey (ESS)....

One question raised in the testing of the criterion validity of the new NS-SEC is whether people assigned to a given NS-SEC category experience highly similar working conditions which are distinct from the conditions experienced by groups of people assigned to other categories. This paper...

This paper proposes an explanation of sex-differences in job-allocation and pay. Job allocation calculations are considered to be related to 1) the distribution of housework and 2) the skill-specialization requirements of jobs. Both elements combined generate a particular incentive structure for...

This paper analyses the labour market transitions of older men and women using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). I find large peaks in exit rates out of employment at ages 60 (women) and 65 (both sexes) which occur in the exact birthday month. This suggests that pension...