MiSoC
Past work – Labour markets and institutions
Read more about our past work:
The labour market
The National Living Wage, inequality and job progression: final report for the Low Pay Commission (Silvia Avram, Susan Harkness)
Flexibility or insecurity: Are jobs with no or few guaranteed hours really desirable for workers? (Silvia Avram)
Out of work again? The psychological impacts of repeated unemployment (Cara Booker)
Outsourcing of cognitive tasks to blame for polarized labor market, not technology (Andrea Salvatori)
Don’t blame the robots (Andrea Salvatori)
Case study: Pay gaps and inequalities in employment
Early gender gaps among university graduates (Matthias Parey, Marco Francesconi)
Lower child mortality: a boost to women’s labour market opportunities (Sonia Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani & Selma Walther)
The distribution of the gender wage gap (Manuel Fernandez Sierra)
Stress levels of working mothers: what could help improve their health? (Cara Booker)
Can unemployment kill? (Amanda Hughes)
Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better? (Mike Brewer)
Job-related learning: who benefits, and how much? (Alita Nandi)
The welfare state
Case study: Disability benefits and social care for older people
Basic Income – testing of a fascinating policy (Iva Valentinova Tasseva)
Disability benefits and social care for older people (Stephen Pudney)
Sticking with the job – the benefits of in-work credits (Mike Brewer)
Losing benefits hurts more than paying taxes: implications for policy making (Silvia Avram)
Winners and losers in changing tax and benefit policies in Europe (Iva Valentinova Tasseva)
Are Tax Expenditures a Good Way to Redistribute? (Silvia Avram)
The effect of policy reforms on wellbeing (Holguer Xavier Jara Tamayo)
How do families fare long term after couples split up? (Mike Brewer, Alita Nandi)
Poverty and inequality
Case study: Dynamics of income and poverty
Food banks and the housing crisis (Amy Clair)
How renting could affect your health (Amy Clair)
Beyond Shelter: The role of home in health and wellbeing
New ways of measuring poverty (Mike Brewer)
Income inequality and the very rich (Mike Brewer)
Some of our key findings:
New dynamics in the labour market
- Ethnic and gender pay gaps
- Unemployment and fertility: Is fertility a procyclical or countercyclical phenomenon?
- Labour market policy evaluations
Dynamics of income and poverty, and inequalities in individual and family living standards
Welfare reforms, insurance and vulnerability
A full list of all ISER’s research.