This paper has used the British Household Panel Study to analyse women's flows into and out of lone parenthood in conjunction with other demographic transitions which affect the populations 'at risk' to become lone parents. It is rates of partnership dissolution, out-of- partnership first birth...

The report examines the dynamics of lone mothers' income packages. It complements analysis of the dynamics of private income sources, namely maintenance income (child support from the non-resident father) and labour earnings, with analysis of the receipt of cash social security benefits, namely...

The paper extends the theoretical approach in Lazear (1986, 1996) to show that jobs with performance related pay (PRP) attract workers of higher unobservable ability, and also induce workers to provide greater effort. We then test some of the predictions of this model against data from the...

This paper examines the role of assortative mating over the past two decades in explaining the observed rise of income inequality for married couples in the United States. Using CPS data for survey years 1976-1992, it shows that wives' income has contributed to equalize the distribution of...

Analysis of the first three waves of the British Household Panel Study (1991-93) indicates substantial changes in the pattern of departure from the parental home among recent cohorts compared with the 1958 cohort. While there appears to have been only a small fall in the median age of leaving...

Using data from the first five waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we examine the extent and determinants of residential mobility for persons aged 55 years or older, plus the subsequent housing adjustments made by those who move. The dimensions of adjustment examined are house value and...

This analysis examines Innovation Panel Wave 3 (IP3) data concerning the collection of information on household wealth. We compare household savings and investment obtained from four different questionnaire designs against the UK Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) and the original British Household...

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

The financial and economic crisis which started in the late 2000s and the fiscal consolidation measures to counter the subsequent government budget deficits have an impact on household income distribution and macroeconomic recovery. We consider the austerity measures in relation to their...