ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
Researchers Cara Booker from the University of Essex and Amanda Sacker at the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL used the long-running British Household Panel Survey to examine the psychological well-being of people who have repeatedly lost their jobs.
The new IZA discussion paper by Guido Matias Cortes and Andrea Salvatori is the first to look at job polarization in Great Britain using workplace level data rather than individual or industry level data.
At the end of May, a small group of presenters gathered at the University of Essex to discuss the state of longitudinal methods in the discipline. Through a series of substantive papers demonstrating the utility of different techniques, a consensus grew that renewed awareness and engagement with longitudinal data can help us make real substantive discoveries – even in questions that appear to be settled with cross-sectional analysis.
Dr Jonathan Burton explains the challenges of surveying online
Iva Tasseva and Alari Paulus have produced an 'Evidence in Focus' briefing for the European Commission DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion comparing policies and their impacts in each of the 28 EU states.
Dr Silvia Avram investigates the prevalence and distributional effects of legal provisions that lower taxable income (tax allowances) or the final tax liability (tax credits) have on specific groups of personal income tax payers.
Dr Gundi Knies on how her research became the basis for an unusual arts and science collaboration
Dr Renee Luthra and Greta Morando on how British science and innovation could lose the best graduates from UK universities
Professor Holly Sutherland explains how ISER’s expertise embodied in the EUROMOD model is being shared with developing countries across the world
Senior Research Officer Amanda Hughes on the links between unemployment and killer diseases such as heart disease
In an article for the UK Admininstrative Justice Institute, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Professor Pudney describes his own recent research and proposes the potential key questions for the future government consultation
Dr Karon Gush on how couples coped with the threat of job loss during the Recession