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Publications

Books

• The Labour market in Winter. The state of working Britain (with Jonathan Wadworth) OUP Oxford (2011)
• The Labour Market Under New Labour (with R Dickens and J Wadsworth) Palgrave (2003)

Book Chapters

• 'UK Welfare Reform 1996 to 2008 and beyond: A personalised and responsive welfare system?' in Golinowska, S. Henstenberg, P. and Zukowski (EDs) Diversity and Commonality in European Social Policies: The Forging of a European Social Model - Friederick Eberts Stiftung/Scholar Warsaw (2008)
• 'Childhood Poverty and Life Chances' in Strelitz, J. and Lister, R. (eds) Why Money Matters, Save the Children (2008)
• 'Is Britain Pulling Apart' in A Green, P Gregg, S Gibbons and S Machin (eds) Area Disparites in Employment, Education and Crime IPPR, Politico's, London(2005)
• 'That's the way the Money Goes: Expenditure Patterns as Real Income Rise for the Poorest Families with Children' (with J Waldfogel and E Washbrook) in J Hills and Kitty Stewart (eds) A More Equal Society? New Labour, Poverty, Inequality and Exclusion (2005) Policy Press
• 'Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility' (with J Blanden and S Machin) in S Machin and A Vignoles (eds) What Can Education Do? Centre for the Economics of Education (2005)
• 'Changes in Intergenerational Mobility' (with J Blanden, A Goodman and S Machin) in M Corak (ed) Generational Income Mobility Cambridge University Press
• 'Measuring Labour Market Performance on Jobs and Pay at the Individual and Houshold Level' (with J Wadsworth) in I Marx and W Salverda (eds) Low-Wage Employment in Europe: Perspectives for Improvement (2005) acco, Leuven
• 'Mobility and Joblessness' (with S Machin and A Manning) in D Card, R Blundell and R Freeman (eds) Seeking a Premier League Economy NBER, University of Chicago Press (2004)
• 'Welfare Reform and Lone Parents Employment' (with S Harkness) in R Dickens, P Gregg and J Wadsworth (eds) The Labour Market Under Labour: State of Working Britain 2003 Palgrave (2003)
• 'Workless Households and the Recovery' (with J Wadsworth) in R Dickens, P Gregg and J Wadsworth (eds) The Labour Market Under Labour: State of Working Britain 2003 Palgrave (2003)
• 'Labour Market Prospects of Less Skilled Workers Over the Recovery in Dickens' (with J Wadsworth) in R Dickens, P Gregg and J Wadsworth (eds) The Labour Market Under Labour: State of Working Britain 2003 Palgrave (2003)
• 'Eradicating Child Poverty in Britain: Welfare Reform and Children since 1997' (with M Brewer) in Walker and Wiseman (eds) The Welfare We Want Policy Press Bristol (2003)
• 'They Get Knocked Down. Do They Get Up Again?' (with J Borland, J Knight and J Wadsworth) in P Kuhn (ed) Losing Work, Moving On: Worker Displacement in an International Context Michigan (2002)
• 'Childhood experiences, educational attainment and adult labor market performance' (with S Machin) in Vleminckx K and Smeeding T (eds.) Child wellbeing, child poverty and child policy in modern nations: What do we know? (2001)
• 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now: Job insecurity in the British labour market' (with G Knight and J Wadsworth) in E Heary and J Salmon (eds) The Insecure Workforce Routledge, London (2000)
• 'Childhood disadvantage and success in the young adult labour market' (with S Machin) in D Blanchflower and R Freeman (eds), Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries University of Chicago Press (2000)
• 'A children's crusade' in Wilkinson H (ed.), Family Business, (2000)

Published Journal Articles

• 'Welfare Reform and Lone Parents in the UK' (with Susan Harkness and Sarah Smith) Economic Journal Features vol. 119 issue 535, February (2009)
• 'Two Sides to Every Story: Measuring Worklessness and Polarisation at the Household Level' (with Wadsworth, J) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A Volume 171 (2008), part 4, pp857-875 (2008)
• 'Maternity rights and Mothers' Return to Work' (with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Elizabeth Washbrook) Labour Economics, vo. 15, no. 2, pp168-201 (2008)
• 'The Employment of Married Mothers in Great Britain: 1974-2000' (with Maria Gutierrez-Domenech and Jane Waldfogel)  Economica, vol. 75 no. 296, pp842-864 (2007)
• 'Explaining intergenerational Income persistence: Non-cognitive skills, ability and education' (with Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan) Economic Journal, no. 117, March, C43-60 (2007)
•  'Family Expenditures Post-Welfare Reform in the UK: Are Low-Income Families Starting to Catch Up?' (with Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook), Labour Economics Labour Economics , vo. 13, no. 6 pp721-746 (2006)
• 'Random and non-Random Matching? Implications for the Use of the UV curve as a Measure of Matching Effectiveness' (with Barbara Petrongolo), European Economic Review vol 49 issue 8, pp1987-2011 (2005)
• 'Employment Polarisation in Australia' (with Peter Dawkins and Rosanna Scutella), Economic Record vol.81 No.255 pp 336-350 (2005)
• 'The Wage Scar from Youth Unemployment' (with Emma Tominey), Labour Economics vol 12, issue 4 (August 2005)
• 'The Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Child Development in the UK' (with C Propper, E Washbrook and S Burgess) Economic Journal vol 115, F48-80, (February 2005)
• 'Family Income and Educational Attainment: A Review of Approaches and Evidence for Britain' (with Jo Blanden) Oxford Review of Economic Policy vol 20, issue 2, (June 2004)
• 'The Growth in Jobless Households in Australia' (with P Dawkins and R Scutella) Australian Economic Review vol 35, issue 2 (June 2002)
• 'Job Tenure in the UK 1975-98' (with J Wadsworth) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics vol 64, issue 2 (2002)
• 'Everything You Wanted to Know about Workless Households But Were Afraid to Ask: Worklessness and Polarisation at the Household Level' (with J Wadsworth) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics vol 63, Special Issue (2001)
• 'The Impact of Youth Unemployment on Adult Unemployment in the NCDS' (with Emma Tominey) Economic Journal vol 111, issue 475, F626-653 (2001)
• 'Mind the Gap, Please: The Changing Nature of Entry Jobs in Britain' (with J Wadsworth) Economica vol 67, issue 268, 499-524 (2000)
• 'Poles Apart: Labour Market Performance and the Distribution of Work Across Households' (with J Wadsworth) World Economics vol 1, issue 2 (2000)
• 'New Labour and the Labour Market' (with D Dickens and J Wadsworth) Oxford Review of Economic Policy vol 16, issue 1 (2000)
• 'The use of wage floors as policy tools', OECD Economic Studies 31 (2000)

Forthcoming Journal Articles

• 'Why we should (also) Measure Worklessness at the Household Level. Theory and Evidence from the US, Britain, Spain, Germany and Australia' (with Scutella, R. and Wadsworth, J) Forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics
• 'Evaluating the Impact of Performance-related Pay for Teachers in England' (with Atkinson, Adele, Simon Burgess, Bronwyn Croxon, Carol Propper, Helen Slater and Deborah Wilson) Forthcoming in Labour Economics

Non-Reffereed Commission Reports

• 'Realising Potential: A Vision for Personalised Conditionality and Support' An Independent Report to the Department of Work and Pensions, Department of Work and Pensions, London
• 'Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Summary' (with Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin and Lindsey Macmillan) A Report to DWP Select Committee, House of Commons
• 'Welfare to Work Policies and Child Labour report' (with Susan Harkness and Lindsey Macmillan), A Report to Joseph Rowntree Commission
• 'Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America' (with Jo Blandon and Stephen Machin), A Report supported by the Sutton Trust, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2005)

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