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August 7, 2018

Britain’s got talent

Developing it could be key to solving the productivity puzzle post-Brexit

  • human resources
  • job skills
  • productivity
  • skills
  • skills gap
  • UK
  • workforce
  • Getinet Haile
Research

June 13, 2018

New evidence on ‘gay glass ceilings’ in top management

Study from the UK shows that sexual minories face barriers in accessing high-level management positions.

  • discrimination
  • gay
  • glass ceiling
  • homosexuality
  • lesbian
  • management
  • UK
  • workplace authority
  • Cevat Giray Aksoy
  • Christopher S. Carpenter
  • Jeff Frank
  • Matt L. Huffman
Research

May 30, 2018

Informal care givers pay a high price in well-being

New study monetarizes the well-being losses from providing informal care to family members.

  • caregiving
  • disability
  • elderly
  • family
  • informal care
  • shadow price
  • UK
  • valuation
  • well-being
  • Nattavudh Powdthavee
  • Rebecca McDonald
Research

August 30, 2016

Outsourcing of cognitive tasks to blame for polarized labor market, not technology

In recent decades labor markets in many developed countries have become increasingly polarized: middle-wage occupations have been declining, while employment […]

  • labor market
  • occupations
  • offshoring
  • outsourcing
  • polarization
  • skills
  • specialization
  • technology
  • UK
  • workplace
  • Andrea Salvatori
  • Guido Matias Cortes
Research

July 15, 2016

Pocket money and part-time job: Do parents tax their children?

Young adults who are still living with their parents and still in compulsory education finance their independent consumption using either […]

  • children
  • insurance
  • parents
  • part-time work
  • pocket money
  • student job
  • tax
  • UK
  • Angus J. Holford
Research

June 14, 2016

The effect of minimum wages on firm value

Ever since minimum wages were first introduced into labor markets, policy controversies have been fought out over the question of […]

  • employment
  • firm value
  • low-wage firms
  • minimum wage
  • National Living Wage
  • stock market
  • UK
  • wage cost
  • Brian Bell
  • Stephen Machin
Research

February 15, 2016

Why UK income inequality has grown faster than you may think

Income inequality levels and trends are increasingly a subject of public discussion and have been analyzed in depth by economists […]

  • data
  • household survey
  • income inequality
  • tax return
  • UK
  • Deborah Hardoon
  • Nicolas Herault
  • Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
  • Richard V. Burkhauser
  • Roger Wilkins
  • Sophia Ayele
  • Stephen P. Jenkins
Research

December 16, 2014

Should you come out in the workplace and would your employer care?

According to a report by Nick Drydakis published by IZA World of Labor today, half of gay and lesbian employees […]

  • discrimination
  • gay
  • happiness
  • harassment
  • IZA World of Labor
  • lesbian
  • satisfaction
  • sexual orientation
  • UK
  • well-being
  • workplace
  • Nick Drydakis
Research

November 19, 2014

Is formal care as good as the support of loving grandparents?

Since early childcare plays an important role in the development of cognitive skills, it partially determines success later in life. […]

  • ability
  • baby
  • childcare
  • cognitive skills
  • education
  • formal care
  • grandparents
  • parents
  • UK
  • Chiara D. Pronzato
  • Daniela Del Boca
  • Daniela Piazzalunga
Research

November 18, 2014

Is formal care as good as the support of loving grandparents?

Since early childcare plays an important role in the development of cognitive skills, it partially determines success later in life. […]

  • ability
  • baby
  • childcare
  • cognitive skills
  • education
  • formal care
  • grandparents
  • parents
  • UK
  • Chiara D. Pronzato
  • Daniela Del Boca
  • Daniela Piazzalunga
Research

April 28, 2014

Why British men were ten centimeters shorter a century ago

Smaller families, improved knowledge about nutrition and hygiene, and a cleaner environment with better housing, less overcrowding and a reduction […]

  • condition
  • health
  • heights of recruits
  • household structure
  • local disease environment
  • nutrition
  • UK
  • Kris Inwood
  • Roy E. Bailey
  • Timothy J. Hatton
OpinionResearch

October 21, 2013

Welfare benefits are no magnet for migrants

EU commissioner Laszlo Andor has been under fire since he claimed last week that welfare tourism is “neither widespread nor […]

  • anti-immigration movement
  • demographic change
  • employment
  • Europe
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • migration
  • UK
  • welfare migration
  • worker mobility
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Martin Kahanec

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