Labour supply and workforce

This paper decomposes the sources of risk to income that individuals face over their lifetimes.

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries.

In this paper we study the impact of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge using information contained in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for individuals aged between 16 and 20.

This paper updates previous estimates of the impact of the programme on the GCSE marks and reported expected school leaving ages, among year 11 pupils.

Against a background of falling and low fertility, this paper presents an analysis of trends in fertility in the UK across cohorts born between 1935 and 1975.

This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on Italian firms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of their poor performance.

Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for a given patient, based on a number of observed covariates <i> X </i>?and prior experience.

This report aims to illuminate the trade-off between work incentives and redistribution.

Two strategies that governments have to help people on low incomes - providing them with financial support directly, and encouraging them to earn more - generally conflict.

This paper reviews various techniques for quantifying financial incentives to work, shows how financial work incentives have changed across the population since 1979, and estimates how much of these changes are due to changes in the tax and benefit system.

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers.

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate.

This paper aims to review the techniques and methods which have been

This paper examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity.

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.

This briefing note presents results from an application of the IFS dynamic labour supply model developed for the HMT and the DWP.

This is the report from the second phase of a project funded by HM Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Inland Revenue, and the Economic and Research Social Council under the broad heading Labour Supply Estimation.

This document presents details of the estimation and results from the IFS model of labour market transitions.