This paper analyses and describes the distribution of earnings at the time of the Wave 1 interview of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), and provides a breakdown of gross weekly and gross hourly earnings by individual, job and regional labour market characteristics.

This paper traces the self-employment story in Britain from 1960 to the present and, using lifetime employment history data from the British Household Panel Survey, examines changes in the flows of individuals into and out of self-employment. The data suggest that the large increase in...

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...

One of the major benefits of household panel studies is that they provide an opportunity to explore the dynamics of household formation and dissolution. Panel studies, because they follow individuals as they move in and out of different types of household arrangements, provide a particularly...

The paper documents the changes of job, employer and occupations in the year prior to the Wave 1 interview of the BHPS, and describes how these changes relate to various individual and job related characteristics.

British society is said to be undergoing a period of major change. What happens to individuals, families and households as they cope with and respond to change, and as they themselves change, is the major descriptive aim of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). More importantly, the BHPS is...

This paper examines the reliability of data on individuals' past experiences of unemployment spells which has been gained by asking individuals to recall these spells and the dates of their occurrence. It compares two sources of retrospective data; the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) Wave 2...

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...

The purpose of this work is to investigate if the spot and forward exchange rate markets are efficient. Within the past three decades, there have been large movements in the exchange rate markets and often these movements were not related with the changes in the "fundamentals" of the economy. On...