This paper explores the school-to-work transition in the UK with the aim of achieving a richer understanding of individuals\\\' choices and activities in the ve years after�reaching school-leaving age. Through the technique of `optimal matching', we assess the�degree of similarity between...

We investigate young people's labour market transitions beyond compulsory schooling and, in particular, the dynamic effects of early experiences. We use a UK longitudinal survey to model transitions between four states: employment, unemployment, education and a residual category of those neither...

This paper studies the school to work transition in the UK with the aim of achieving a richer understanding of individuals’ trajectories in the five years after reaching school leaving age. By applying the technique of ‘optimal matching’ on data from 1991 to 2008, we group individuals’...

1.       The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) conducted a Section 31 Assessment of Her Majesty’s Treasury’s 2010 Spending Review to assess to what extent and in what manner HM Treasury complied with the race, disability and gender equality duties in place during the 2010...

Most empirical studies of savings behaviour that take explicit account of uncertainty consider for identiÂ…cation data that describe the evolution of circumstances observed during an appreciable period of the life-course. Here we report results obtained using a dynamic programming model that...

  Most empirical studies of savings behaviour that explicitly take account of the influence of uncertainty consider for identiï¬cation data that describe the evolution of circumstances observed during an appreciable period of the life-course. Here we report results obtained for a dynamic...

  This paper describes a structural dynamic microsimulation model that generates individualspeciï¬c data over a range of demographic and economic characteristics at annual intervals overthe life-course. The model is speciï¬cally designed to analyse the distributional implications of policy...

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people’s lives.  But can they?  In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people.  We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents...

A recent experimental programme for unemployed welfare recipients in the UK found that temporary earnings supplements combined with post-employment services led to increased employment rates. This paper examines whether these overall impacts are due to employment entry or employment retention...

Data from a recently-completed experimental program for out-of-work welfare recipients in Texas are used to examine the effects of a time-limited financial incentive coupled with post-employment services on recipients’ rates of entering and leaving employment.  While there is strong evidence...