We evaluate the labour market value of literacy and numeracy in the UK, focusing on the
impact of basic skills on wages. We draw on literacy and numeracy tests undertaken by all …

… Using data from the British Labour Force Survey this article provides an empirical investigation
of the way immigration affects labour market outcomes of native born workers in Britain, …

… and their labour market outcomes (Section III). Next, we investigate the various labour market
… of different origins and compare them with those for British-born whites of the same age, …

Using UK LFS data, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender
since the Disability Discrimination Act. Substantial differences in employment incidence …

This paper addresses the issue of overeducation and undereducation using for the first time
a British dataset which contains explicit information on the level of required education to …

… the assimilation of immigrants into the British labour market. Chiswick (1980) … Labour Market
Database (LLMDB) to examine the assimilation of immigrants into the British labour market. …

It is clear that women's wages, on average, are much lower than men's wages in Great
Britain. In the recent past, considerable attention has been directed towards estimating the …

… have analysed the labour market situation of different ethnic groups in Britain covering a long
… In terms of overall labour market situation, we found that White British and White Other men …

… on social assistance provision, successive British governments over the last 20 years have
implemented a range of supply-side labour market policies to tackle unemployment. These …

… This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using …
reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps surprisingly, wage rents are typical of the British public …