Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation—including
education, and savings for women in the United Kingdom, exploiting tax and benefit reforms …

This article reviews the basic theoretical models that are appropriate for analyzing different
types of welfare reforms, as well as the related empirical literature. We first present the …

In this paper, we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment,
job changes, wage rates, and work hours over a career. We use the model to address a …

In‐work credits grew in popularity worldwide during the late 1990s and 2000s as a means of
reforming welfare systems in ways that could both encourage work and reduce poverty. This …

We give a quantitative analysis of the nature of occupational change–based on the
utilisation of skills–as women make the transition between full‐time and part‐time work. We …

As in many European countries, labour productivity in the UK has been stagnant since the
start of the Great Recession. This article uses individual data on employment and wages to …

A series of reforms to help low income families with children were introduced in the UK in
1999, including in‐work tax credits and welfare‐to‐work programmes. Lone parents were a …

Part-time work among British women is extensive, and the (raw) pay penalty large. Since
part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare …

Mismatches between the number of hours people actually work and the hours they prefer to
work are common, but few studies have examined such hour mismatches from a longitudinal …