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2009-32: ‘Google it!’ Forecasting the US unemployment rate with a Google job search index

Francesco D'Amuri and Juri Marcucci

2009-31: Decomposing pay gaps across the wage distribution: investigating inequalities of ethno-religious groups and disabled people

Cheti Nicoletti, Lucinda Platt and Simonetta Longhi

2009-30: Spaghetti unravelled: a model-based description of differences in income-age trajectories

Stephen Jenkins

2009-29: The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain

Stephen Jenkins and Lorenzo Cappellari

2009-28: Residential mobility, neighbourhood quality and life-course events

Birgitta Rabe and Mark Taylor

2009-27: Recent trends in top income shares in the USA: reconciling estimates from March CPS and IRS tax return data

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

2009-26: Generalized measures of wage differentials

Philippe Van Kerm

2009-25: The effect of lone motherhood on the smoking behaviour of young adults

Marco Francesconi, Stephen Jenkins and Thomas Siedler

2009-24: Measuring the size and impact of public cash support for children in cross-national perspective

Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus and Holly Sutherland

2009-23: Patterns of non-employment, and of disadvantage, in a recession

Richard Berthoud

2009-22: Explaining personality pay gaps in the UK

Cheti Nicoletti and Alita Nandi

2009-21: Nonresponse bias adjustments: what can process data contribute?

Annelies G. Blom

2009-20: Job competition and entry wages of highly educated workers: are there differences between Great Britain and Finland?

Simonetta Longhi and Sanna-Mari Hynninen

2009-19: Participation in disability benefit programmes: a partial identification analysis of the British Attendance Allowance system

Stephen Pudney

2009-18: Variations in earnings growth: evidence from earnings transitions in the NZ Linked Income Survey

Ron Crawford

2009-17: Is there a wage curve for the highly educated?

Sanna-Mari Hynninen

2009-16: Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development

Emilia Del Bono and John Ermisch

2009-15: The effects of mobility on neighbourhood social ties

Gundi Knies

2009-14: A comparison of earnings measures from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys: evidence from the UK

Marco Francesconi, Francesca Zantomio and Holly Sutherland

2009-13: The sources of interindustry wage differentials

Priscila Ferreira

2009-12: Returns to job mobility: the role of observed and unobserved factors

Priscila Ferreira

2009-11: The determinants of promotions and firm separations

Priscila Ferreira

2009-10: Occupational change in Britain and Germany

Simonetta Longhi and Malcolm Brynin

2009-09: When change matters: the effect of dependent interviewing on survey interaction in the British Household Panel Study

Emanuela Sala and SC Noah Uhrig

2009-08: Explaining cross-country differences in contact rates

Annelies G. Blom

2009-07: “It is time computers do clever things!” The impact of dependent interviewing on interviewer burden

Peter Lynn, Emanuela Sala and SC Noah Uhrig

2009-06: Measuring the impact of disability benefits: a feasibility study

Richard Berthoud

2009-05: Judicial review litigation as an incentive to change in local authority public services in England and Wales

Lucinda Platt, Maurice Sunkin and Kerman Calvo

2009-04: Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

2009-03: Popularity

Stephen Pudney, Gabriella Conti, Andrea Galeotti and Gerrit Mueller

2009-02: Benefits and problems of linking micro and macro models – evidence from a flat tax analysis

Andreas Peichl

2009-01: Healthy school meals and educational outcomes

Jonathan James and Michèle Belot

2008-42: The use of respondent incentives on longitudinal surveys

Peter Lynn and Heather Laurie

2008-41: Measuring nonresponse cross-nationally

Annelies G. Blom

2008-40: Disability benefits and paying for care

Ruth Hancock and Richard Berthoud

2008-39: If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands! Survey design and the analysis of satisfaction

Stephen Pudney and Gabriella Conti

2008-38: Population ageing: crisis or opportunity?

John Ermisch

2008-37: Do strong family ties inhibit trust?

John Ermisch and Diego Gambetta

2008-36: Social networks in determining migration and labour market outcomes: evidence from the German reunification

Thomas Siedler and Helmut Rainer

2008-35: The route to take-up: raising incentives or lowering barriers?

Francesca Zantomio

2008-34: The dynamics of social assistance receipt: measurement and modelling issues, with an application to Britain

Stephen Jenkins and Lorenzo Cappellari

2008-33: Domestic supply, job-specialisation and sex-differences in pay

Javier Polavieja

2008-32: The social significance of homogamy

Simonetta Longhi, Malcolm Brynin and Martínez Pérez, à Lvaro

2008-31: Staying together for the sake of the home? House price shocks and partnership dissolution in the UK

Helmut Rainer and Ian Smith

2008-30: Does size matter? The influence of firm size on working conditions and job satisfaction

Carlos García-Serrano

2008-29: The influence of disability on absenteeism: an empirical analysis using Spanish data

Carlos García-Serrano and Miguel Malo

2008-28: Mind the gap, please! The effect of temporary help agencies on the consequences of work accidents

Carlos García-Serrano, Virginia Hernanz and Luis Toharia

2008-27: Intrafamily resource allocations: a dynamic model of birth weight

Emilia Del Bono, Marco Francesconi and John Ermisch

2008-26: Who are the UK’s minority ethnic groups? Issues of identification and measurement in a longitudinal study

Jonathan Burton, Lucinda Platt and Alita Nandi

2008-25: Estimating trends in US income inequality using the Current Population Survey: the importance of controlling for censoring

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore