Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of this 1958 birth cohort of young men and women - the years spanning the ages...

The main objective of this research is the analysis of the mobility among employment statuses or labour market states along the life cycle, using the work-life history data from the British Household Panel Survey. I adopt an exploratory approach analysing employment statuses as a whole embedded...

This paper provides an empirical examination of the labour market transitions of married women over time by analysing spells of nonwork, part-time work and full-time work. Using data from the young cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey 1968-1991, it estimates two- way competing risk models...

There can be no doubt that household panel studies offer unique opportunities for a range of important and innovative methodological research projects. At the same time, panel studies offer difficult design and quality challenges and the complex nature of their data creates new puzzles and...

For a summary measure of income mobility, Peter Hart and others have favoured an index based on the correlation between the logarithm of incomes in successive time periods. This paper examines the features of the Hart index and, in doing so, formulates a number of general properties that may be...

The conventional approach to modelling family labour supply is to estimate a system of two-adult equations on micro data sets providing information on female and male hours of market work and aggregate family consumption of market goods. Information on all individual consumptions, including pure...

In this paper we estimate the associations between several outcomes in early adulthood (educational attainment, unemployment, leaving home, early childbearing, distress and smoking) and a number of parental (or mother's) behaviours during childhood, including the mother's employment patterns,...

This paper uses the data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to examine the impact of vocational education and training received over the period 1981 to 1991 on the wages growth of young men in employment in both 1981 and 1991. Issues of sample selectivity and of training...

Micro- level information on both expenditure and income is useful for a wide range of purposes: to conduct investigations into standards of living, for example. It is necessary for the analysis of the combined effects of direct and indirect personal taxes. However, it is unusual to have one data...