A causal order analysis of union membership and Labour Party proximity in the UK
Journal Article - November 14, 2025
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Taking stock: counting the economic costs of alcohol harm
Report - October 8, 2025
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: new findings from a longitudinal analysis
Journal Article - October 1, 2025
Working from home and performance pay: individual or collective payment schemes?
Journal Article - September 4, 2025
Low Pay Britain 2025: where next for the Government’s employment reforms?
Report - July 3, 2025
Did trade unions protect employees’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic? A mixed effects model using UK data from Understanding Society
Journal Article - May 21, 2025
Labor outcomes after employer-provided training: evidence from the Understanding Society survey
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
Social class and earnings trajectories in the UK: new findings from a longitudinal analysis
Journal Article - February 11, 2025
Do high minimum wages harm the progression of minimum wage workers? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Journal Article - January 28, 2025
Gender and parenthood differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK
Journal Article - December 1, 2024
The wind of no change: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis
Journal Article - August 20, 2024
Hours of work and the long-run effects of in-work transfers
Journal Article - August 20, 2024
Working from home and performance pay: individual or collective payment schemes?
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17234 - August 1, 2024
Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages
Media - July 18, 2024
Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages: methodology appendix
Report - July 1, 2024
The impact of excess body weight on employment outcomes: a systematic review of the evidence
Journal Article - April 30, 2024
Firm foundations: understanding why employers use flexible contracts
Report - April 15, 2024
Performance-related pay, mental and physiological health
Journal Article - January 15, 2024
The impact of smoking, heavy drinking and obesity on employment prospects, earnings and productivity: analyses using UK data
Report - November 15, 2023
Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK
Journal Article - October 15, 2023
Understanding recent trends in ill health-driven fallout from the UK job market
Report - September 25, 2023
Worker productivity during Covid-19 and adaptation to working from home
ISER Working Paper Series, 2023-04 - August 16, 2023
Linking pay to performance may hurt firms’ productivity
Media - May 18, 2023
Study finds link between performance-related pay and poor health
Media - May 17, 2023
Turning no tides: union effects on partisan preferences and the working-class metamorphosis
Research Paper, MPIfG Discussion Papers, 23/2 - May 1, 2023
Decomposing surplus-value: an analysis of distribution and unproductive labour of the UK economy, 1992-2020
Research Paper, CAFÉ Working Papers, 21 - March 15, 2023
Gender differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK
ISER Working Paper Series, 2023-02 - March 7, 2023
Unions as insurance: employer–worker risk sharing and workers’ outcomes during COVID-19
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 15893 - January 15, 2023
Power plays: the shifting balance of employer and worker power in the UK labour market
Report - July 15, 2022
Unstable jobs and time out of work: evidence from the UK
Journal Article - March 15, 2022
Performance-related pay and objective measures of health after correcting for sample selection
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 15000 - January 15, 2022
“Are you in the right job?” Human capital mismatch in the UK
Research Paper, GLO Discussion Papers, 976 - November 15, 2021