This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …

into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK. We also examine whether … there are differences in broader measures of well-being such as self-perceived health and mental health. We find that the … significant differences in terms of occupation, earnings and self-perceived health and mental health. It is not clear why this …

Estimates of the effect of health on employment differ significantly from study to study due to differences in method … to interpret and contrast estimates of the impact of health on employment based on various measures of health and … estimates downwards. Failure to account for initial conditions leads to an overstatement of the effect of health on employment …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … diffusion of technologies on wages in the cross section which is not robust to endogeneity and fixed effects; (iii) at the firm … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

insurance across individuals and across the lifecycle. We embed these alternative roles in a lifecycle model, allowing us to …-individual redistribution and between- and within-individual insurance. These components are distinguished from perspective of the start of … credit (WFTC) reform of 1999 and the universal credit (UC) reform that began in 2013. Our main conclusions are that insurance …

's cognitive development, but not on non-cognitive development or health. Regarding mechanisms, we estimate how breastfeeding …

on health outcomes, including self-reports of chest infection, measured hypertension and biomarkers of infection and … serum fibrinogen. Reductions in other disease markers point to health benefits, but the estimated effects are not robustly …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …