We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various … forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that …

Average real UK household income has almost doubled over the past forty years. With four decades of micro-data on … household incomes, and relatively simple decomposition methods, we document the contribution to this growth in the mean net … household income of working-age households from different income sources, and break down further changes in employment income by …

lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of … contemporaneous and historical news affect household behavior. Our test permits heterogeneity in the degree of commitment across …

2002-2009. Using a representative household panel, we find that the consumption response to minimum wage income shock is … increasing in the minimum wage share of household income and that poorer households fully consume their additional income. The … long-lasting benefits to household welfare. …

earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using several waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we …