The life histories collected in the second wave of the BHPS are used to study the changing importance of cohabitation without legal marriage and childbearing within such unions in Britain, comparing the experiences of two broad cohorts of women: those born during 1950- 62 and those born after...

Using new data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) 1991--1995, we document patterns of career mobility and investigate various factors affecting the probabilities of male and female workers' promotions, quits and layoffs. We find that internal promotions account for almost two-fifths...

This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic stochastic structural model of a married woman's labor force participation and fertility decisions. Questions addressed by this study include: Is high persistence in employment (in that women who participate at one age are more likely to participate...

This paper estimates a dynamic structural model of fertility and labor supply of married women using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, 1968--91. We distinguish two employment sectors, part-time and full-time work, which are found to differ by pecuniary and nonpecuniary...

This study uses data from the 1958 birth cohort, collected in the British National Child Development study. and from the British Household Panel Study, to model the dynamics of young people's first entry to either owner-occupation or tenancy in social housing and subsequent tenure changes. The...

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...

The paper examines gender differences in intra-firm and inter-firm job changes, including worker-initiated and firm-initiated separations, for white full-time British workers over the period 1991-96. We document four main findings. First, job mobility is high for both men and women, with more...

Estimates based on couples with dependent children in the first six years of the British Household Panel Study (1991-97) indicate that changes in a couple's economic circumstances affect the probability that a partnership dissolves. In particular, unexpected improvements in finances...

An economic theory of young people's decision to live apart from parents is presented and used to structure econometric analyses of the processes of leaving the parental home and returning to it, which employ data from the British Household Panel Survey for the first half of the 1990s. The...

We show how changes in the educational composition of the labour force affect both the level and the behaviour over time of aggregate unemployment series. We also demonstrate that if it had not been for such changes, the U.S. unemployment series would look "European" since the within-group...