Descriptive, visualisation and modelling studies
Using administrative and big data to improve labour market statistics
Exploring the potential to leverage administrative data for the production of labour market statistics
Sub-prime lending in the US
Examining the needs, characteristics, and perceptions of US citizens using alternative credit instruments.
Education and its effects on income and mortality of older men
Exploring the effects of education on the income, health and survival of older men
Changes in young people’s early transitions
Describing the changing nature of young people's experiences post-school leaving age over the past 30 years.
Intergenerational Dynamics in Learning Engagement, Life Chances and Well-Being of Young People
An examining of intergenerational transmission of education and, separately, a consideration of variations in subjective well-being by ethnicity and migration ancestry.
Programme of research into adult English and Maths
Evaluating the relative effectiveness of blended learning and face-to-face tuition on skills; examination of skills gain and loss following training
Using administrative data to measure FE outcomes
Assessment of whether administrative data can replace surveys used to measure labour market outcomes from training
Psychological distress among JSA claimants
Examining how mental well-being changes with length of time unemployed
The school to work transition
Visualising young people's early labour market transitions and estimating the importance of experience.
Lifelong learning
Estimating the returns to gaining a qualification when age 25 or over
Evaluation of the Better-off in Work Credit
Evaluating a piloted financial incentive to ensure work pays
Older workers’ transitions
Examination of the factors influencing transitions in and out of employment among the over-50s
Low-moderate income couples
Examination of the characteristics and labour market transitions of low-income couples with children
Earnings Top-Up
Evaluating the employment effects of a piloted earnings supplement
Workless couples’ labour market transitions
Analysis of the labour market transitions of workless couples.
Ethnic minorities in the inner city
Patterns of settlement among minority ethnic groups and the correlation with area deprivation
Leaving Incapacity Benefit
Describing and modelling labour market outcomes among individuals leaving Incapacity Benefit
Poverty, Smoking and Lone Parenthood
Exploration of the reasons behind high levels of smoking among lone parents in Britain
The demand for meat
Meat consumption: analysing the decision to eat meat and the amount to consume
Minimum wages in agriculture
Examination of the effect of the agricultural minimum wage on the wage distribution of agricultural workers
The take-up of Family Credit
Analysis of the factors influencing families' take-up of means-tested benefits