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Out now and free to download: Thomas Breda and Alan Manning on diversity and social capital in the workplace onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Industrial Relations IRLE UC Berkeley Wiley Business

A sneak preview of Industrial Relations first issue of 2025 with articles on right-to-work states, worker wellbeing, automation and mental health, Australian health and safety, the psychological contract and collective bargaining in France IRLE UC Berkeley Wiley Business

In contrast to Europe and North America the mental health of the young in Africa has not declined relative to older people. In Africa the younger you are the happier you are - in most surveys nber.org/papers/w33280?… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) NBER

Demand for union membership is price sensitive. Tax subsidies increase take up. In Norway the effects on union density are large. Download the paper via Open Access sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Economics UCL Sociology Network

Out now the first issue of Industrial Relations in 2025. Includes 4 #OpenAccess papers free to download onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468232x/2… IRLE UC Berkeley Wiley Business

Life satisfaction has been rising for nearly two decades in ex-Soviet states across all age groups. We see no deterioration in the mental health of the young relative to older age groups nber.org/system/files/w… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) NBER UNDP Youth

Taking a 50-year perspective using the CPS our latest paper - free to download - shows unions continue to procure a union wage premium, and maintain hours thus reducing underemployment. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1111/bjir.1… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Economics Wiley Business

Our new paper shows those with a higher genetic propensity for education spend longer in employment over the life-course. Effects are 4-times larger for women than for men sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Economic and Social Research Council UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Economics UCL Sociology Network

Our new Wage Dynamics work shows ONS official stats underestimate the size of the hourly gender wage gap. Using new linked ASHE-RTI payroll data we also show the gap is larger when estimated over weeks and months rather than hourly. adruk.org/fileadmin/uplo… ADR UK UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

Our new Wage Dynamics work using linked ASHE-RTI payroll data shows over one-quarter of working age people in employment were multiple job-holders over the course of a year. They were more reliant on the minimum wage than single job-holders adruk.org/fileadmin/uplo… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

Employers can retain valuable workers for longer with the right management practices because they impact older workers' retirement plans. Download our paper free here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network Petri Böckerman

How people respond to subjective wellbeing and mental health questions is strongly linked to survey mode. These effects differ systematically by age. Find out more in our NBER paper out today: nber.org/papers/w33475 UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Economics UCL Sociology Network

Examining the age profile of subjective wellbeing and illbeing in nine Asian countries and seven Middle Eastern countries, from @d_blanchflower and Alex Bryson nber.org/papers/w33475

Here's a sneak preview of our next issue IRLE UC Berkeley Wiley Business

The introduction of the National Living Wage in the UK reduced job-to-job transitions suggesting the higher wage floor may have reduced the attractiveness of quits to minimum wage workers carlsingletoneconomics.com/uploads/4/2/3/… Wage Dynamics ADR UK UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

It is where you work - not who you are or what you do - that explains most of the variance in non-pecuniary job quality across workers docs.iza.org/dp17724.pdf UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network UCL John Forth

How important is where you work to your job quality? Find out here youtube.com/watch?v=1lktKH… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network John Forth

If you reweight ASHE to account for non-response you'll find the gender wage gap is bigger than you thought and so too is the bite of the minimum wage. Check it out: carlsingletoneconomics.com/uploads/4/2/3/… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) Wage Dynamics ADR UK UCL Sociology Network UCL Economics

Our special issue call on Gender and Industrial Relations can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1… If you have a paper the deadline is April 14 Wiley Business IRLE UC Berkeley

Web surveys suggest the young are less happy than older people but face-to-face and telephone surveys often find the opposite. Why? Find out here: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network United Nations