This paper presents two optimising models of individual or parental educational choice, and discusses issues of identification and estimates earnings equations in the context of these models. The estimates indicate that education is endogenous for young men's earnings, but not for young women....

This paper looks at the effect of quitting on the number of workers trained under conditions of uncertainty about future productivity when workers have both firm-specific and industry- specific skills. A new effect is found which works in the opposite direction of the undertraining result of...

The issue of third parties' presence in face-to-face interview situations is a familiar, yet often unexamined phenomenon. Whilst there is often an implicit or explicit instruction to interviewers to interview respondents alone, there is little conclusive evidence to suggest that the presence of...

The paper models the transitions rates between the three main housing tenures in Britain. "Surprises" like partnership break-up, acquisition of a partner and spells of unemployment are found to have large impacts on tenure changes. Through their effects on these transition rates, variation in...

Household labour supply models are typically estimated on data sets containing information on family consumption and male and female hours of market work. The estimating equations are consistent with a theoretical model which assumes the maximisation of a household utility function defined on...

This paper addresses the debate on class and gender by focusing on the inter-connections between social class, occupational sex segregation, sector and gender, and therefore structural features that are seen as partly independent, partly inter-connected, sources of social inequality. The...

The main question addressed in this paper is when and about what can accurate information concerning individuals' pasts be collected and furthermore, when is it necessary to ask people concurrently about the experiences in question? Evidence has been collected from various research studies which...

The UK income distribution changed its shape dramatically during the 1980s. This paper documents the trends and summarises research about their causes. It also comments on research methodologies and data sets and points to future research directions. The paper concludes by considering what...

In this paper we estimate the associations between several outcomes in early adulthood (educational attainment, unemployment, leaving home, early childbearing, distress and smoking) and a number of parental (or mother's) behaviours during childhood, including the mother's employment patterns,...

Self-employment is receiving increasing attention in the economics literature, due at least in part to the growth in the number of self-employed through the 1980s. Indeed, self- employment is now widely regarded as a distinct labour market state as opposed to a form of paid employment. Given...