Labour supply and workforce

Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

The present study examined pathways to financial independence from social welfare among 738 teenage mothers, participants of the 1970 British Cohort Study.

This report explores what types of firm engage with the apprenticeship programme and if there are characteristics that make them more or less likely to offer apprenticeships.

This study investigated the hypothesis that offering vocational options in Year 10 can help improve levels of educational engagement and subsequent outcomes among young people disengaged from education.

The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.

We show that, in locations with frequent inspections workers pay for mandated benefits by receiving lower wages.

This report analyses the impact that ERA has had on a variety of outcomes experienced by working members of the New Deal for Lone Parents and Working Tax Credit target groups, as well as on the tax year earnings of working members of the New Deal 25 plus target group.

This paper looks at how to design policy on informal labour markets.

This paper uses administrative data to evaluate a targeted, time-limited policy aimed at getting lone parents off benefits and into work.

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005.

This review is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the key characteristics of what works in terms of early interventions to prevent or reduce youth crime or anti-social behaviour.

Four distinct pieces of analysis to help us better understand young people's early interactions with the labour market.

This article addresses questions regarding the origins of individual variations in political trust.

In this paper we examine the associations between gender, family background, general cognitive ability (g), teenage career aspirations, and career attainment in mid adulthood drawing on two large representative samples of the British population born in 1958

In this paper we propose a systematic way of examining the importance of the extensive and the intensive margins of labor supply in order to explain the overall movements in total hours of work over time.