Local Level Incapacity Benefits Rolls in Britain: Correlates and Convergence
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 47, Heft 8, S. 1267-1282
ISSN: 1360-0591
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In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 47, Heft 8, S. 1267-1282
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Economica, Band 77, Heft 306, S. 296-313
ISSN: 1468-0335
Because unemployment benefit reforms typically package together a number of changes, few existing evaluations have been able to isolate the effects of changes in job search monitoring intensity on benefit recipient stocks or flows. Those few studies that do so draw mixed conclusions. This paper provides new estimates of monitoring impacts by exploiting plausibly exogenous periods where search monitoring has been temporarily withdrawn – with the regime otherwise unchanged – during a series of benefit office refurbishments in Northern Ireland. As we would expect from search theory, withdrawal of monitoring significantly increases the stock of unemployment benefit recipients via reduced outflows.
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 40, Heft 5, S. 519-533
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Regional studies, Band 40, Heft 5, S. 519-533
ISSN: 0034-3404
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 34, Heft 9, S. 883-888
ISSN: 1360-0591
In: Regional studies, Band 34, Heft 9, S. 883-888
ISSN: 0034-3404
In: The Australian economic review, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 345-356
ISSN: 1467-8462
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 287-311
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 393-406
ISSN: 1467-9485
This paper examines the effects on examination performance of having a part–time job whilst in full–time post–sixteen education, using new data on young people in Northern Ireland. Around 35% engaged in part time employment during their education spell, compared to over 60% found by recent GB studies. This may be related to Northern Ireland's comparatively slack youth labour market and might reflect part–time employment levels in other peripheral regions. Our estimations suggest working part–time per se is not detrimental to examination performance, although working long hours is. Policy makers might improve educational performance by reducing incentives to work long hours.
In: IZA journal of labor policy, Band 2, Heft 1
ISSN: 2193-9004
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This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment – the main welfare payment for this group – for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to engage in at least 15 hours of work-related activity per week from the youngest child's seventh birthday. As was the case for similar reforms introduced by US states in the 1990s, these reforms had large, statistically significant and positive impacts on the hazard rates for exiting the welfare payment. Two thirds of these exits were exits from welfare altogether and one third were exits to other welfare payments.
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I38, J22
In: Melbourne Institute Working Paper No. 01/12
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Working paper
In: Sociological methods and research, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 482-512
ISSN: 1552-8294
This article uses longitudinal data from the British Cohort Study to examine the early labor market trajectories—the careers—of more than 5,000 women aged 16 to 29 years. Conventional event history approaches focus on particular transitions, the return to work after childbirth, for example, whereas the authors treat female careers more holistically, using sequence methods and cluster analysis to arrive at a rich but readily interpretable description of the data. The authors' typology presents a fuller picture of the underlying heterogeneity of female career paths that may not be revealed by more conventional transition-focused methods. Furthermore, the authors contribute to the small but growing literature on sequence analysis of female labor force participation by using their typology to show how careers are related to family background and school experiences.
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 167-195
ISSN: 1467-9485
ABSTRACTThe UK New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is a mandatory active labour market programme aimed at helping unemployed young people into jobs. This paper examines how the programme affected hazard rates for unemployment exits across the UK regions in its first few years. The regional focus is motivated by the belief that differences between regional labour markets, between claimants, and differences in implementation may have led to differences in programme outcomes. The paper shows that NDYP increased outflows from unemployment in all regions but that its impact was larger in some regions than in others. The paper also shows differential NDYP impacts across the regions on destination‐specific hazard rates from unemployment to employment, to education/training, to inactivity and to 'other'. Possible explanations for these results are then discussed.
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 167-195
ISSN: 0036-9292
"The UK New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is a mandatory active labour market programme aimed at helping unemployed young people into jobs. This paper examines how the programme affected hazard rates for unemployment exits across the UK regions in its first few years. The regional focus is motivated by the belief that differences between regional labour markets, between claimants, and differences in implementation may have led to differences in programme outcomes. The paper shows that NDYP increased outflows from unemployment in all regions but that its impact was larger in some regions than in others. The paper also shows differential NDYP impacts across the regions on destination-specific hazard rates from unemployment to employment, to education/training, to inactivity and to 'other'. Possible explanations for these results are then discussed." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ; Querschnitt. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
International audience ; This paper explores the determinants of the proportion of the working age male population claiming incapacity benefits (IB), across the eleven British Government Office Regions, for the period 1998-2006. Three different approaches are adopted to modelling register dynamics: first treating IB stocks as if they were trend-stationary, albeit with persistence, and estimating reduced form models for their logs; second treating IB stocks as if they were non-stationary and examining their long run determinants plus short run equilibrium reversion properties; third focusing on the determinants of gross inflows and outflows that together drive IB stocks. Given the nature of the data no approach is ideal, yet the models provide reasonably robust evidence that labour market changes - specifically falling unemployment rates and rising real earnings - have contributed to falling male IB stocks over the period.
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