On the importance of taking a life-cycle view in understanding generational issues.

Understand this issue

Retirement is not always a choice that workers can afford to make

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"More of us may feel little choice but to work a year or two longer than planned." Paul Johnson writes for The Times.

6 November 2023

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

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Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 2024

How did parents’ experiences in the labour market shape children’s social and emotional development during the pandemic?

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Around 50% of families saw changes in labour market status during the COVID-19 pandemic. This impacted the emotional development of their children.

1 August 2023

Policy analysis

Recent trends in public sector pay

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How has public sector pay changed in recent years? Which type of workers have done better and which have done worse?

26 March 2024

Living standards since the last election

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New income statistics suggest this parliament is on course to be the worst for living standards on record.

21 March 2024

Progression of nurses within the NHS

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This report examines the career progression of NHS nurses, how this compares with that of other NHS staff groups and how this has changed over time.

12 April 2024

Academic research

Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages

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We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US.

15 April 2024

Interpreting cohort profiles of lifecycle earnings volatility

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We present new estimates of earnings volatility over time and the lifecycle for men and women by race and human capital.

15 April 2024

There and back again: women’s marginal commuting costs

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We estimate female and male workers’ marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany.

2 April 2024