The paper argues that the study of household allocations has relevance beyond that of marital relations and the welfare of women and children in families. It has a role to play in the debate on micro-macro links in sociology and therefore as a means of linking the private and public domains. The...

The paper concentrates on the research process itself and the implications of using multiple research methodologies and techniques in a mutually informative way in designing and carrying out social research in the field. The author concludes that the combination of methods, although not...

The paper examines some of the technical and epistemological questions raised by the debate on linking qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. A qualitative research project on the distribution of resources within households currently being conducted by the BHPS is used as an...

This paper discusses the comparative research process and describes issues which have been faced and lessons learnt in the process of carrying out a number of cross-national comparisons of women's employment careers. Data from a seven country comparison carried out by the ESF Scientific Network...

This analysis provides information on the employment and household circumstances of homeworkers in Britain in 1991. The extent of homeworking in Britain is reported with those working 'at home' being distinguished from those working 'from home'. For the purposes of this report it is the former...

Micro-social change in Britain originally written in 1989, is an historical document providing an overview of the role and objectives of the Centre and an outline of its intended work in the design, collection and analysis of the British Household Panel Study. A long postscript is provided to...

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...