Is workplace flexibility penalised? The gendered consequences of working from home for the wages of parents and childless employees in the UK
Journal Article - June 12, 2025
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Is there a mid-career crisis? An investigation of the relationship between age and job satisfaction across occupations based on four large UK datasets
Journal Article - December 19, 2024
Beyond the ideal: unravelling the complexities of overqualification, employee volunteering and job satisfaction
Journal Article - December 16, 2024
Labor outcomes after employer-provided training: evidence from the Understanding Society survey
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
Flexible working and well-being: evidence from the UK
Journal Article - December 3, 2024
Working from home and performance pay: individual or collective payment schemes?
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17234 - August 1, 2024
Navigating turbulence in the UK: how gender shapes self-employed social engagement during crises?
Journal Article - July 31, 2024
Violence in the workplace in the United Kingdom: business and individual-level exposure
Report - June 1, 2024
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK
Journal Article - June 1, 2024
Fathers taking leave: evaluating the impact of shared parental leave in the UK
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 17076 - June 1, 2024
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
Firm foundations: understanding why employers use flexible contracts
Report - April 15, 2024
Gendered transitions to self-employment and business ownership: a linked-lives perspective
Journal Article - February 12, 2024
Entrepreneurship and democracy: a complex relationship
Journal Article - February 2, 2024
Automation risk and subjective wellbeing in the UK
Journal Article - January 18, 2024
COVID-19 lockdowns and working women’s mental health: does motherhood and size of workplace matter? A comparative analysis using understanding society
Journal Article - January 15, 2024
Who makes it to the top? Differential rewards to personality across gender and occupation in the UK
Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 16754 - January 15, 2024
Effect of trade unions on the mental health of UK workers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis using Understanding Society data -conference paper abstract-
Journal Article - November 15, 2023
Ethnicity disparities in job control in the United Kingdom
Journal Article - November 9, 2023
Change, stagnation, and polarisation in UK job quality, 2012-2021: evidence from a new Quality of Work index
Research Paper, CASEpapers, 230 - August 15, 2023
Adopting telework: the causal impact of working from home on subjective well-being
Journal Article - July 5, 2023
Study finds little evidence of negative impact on mental health from increased home working during pandemic
Media - May 1, 2023
Home working and social and mental wellbeing at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: evidence from 7 longitudinal population surveys
Journal Article - April 27, 2023
Satisfaction and attrition in the UK healthcare sector over the past decade
Journal Article - April 13, 2023
Gender differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK
CeMPA Working Paper Series, CEMPA4/23 - March 21, 2023
Beyond the great retirement: understanding and tackling economic inactivity amongst the over 50s
Report - March 15, 2023
Do work search requirements work? Evidence from a UK reform targeting single parents
Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, 23/02 - February 1, 2023
National survey of mental health and life satisfaction of gig workers: the role of loneliness and financial precarity
Journal Article - December 9, 2022
Worker adjustment to unexpected occupational risk: evidence from COVID-19
Journal Article - November 15, 2022
Remote working: a research overview
Book - June 1, 2022
Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies
Journal Article - May 19, 2022
Workers exposed to digitalization become more supportive of the Conservatives and of the incumbent government
Media - May 9, 2022