scholarly journals Disability and Disadvantage: Selection, Onset, and Duration Effects

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN P. JENKINS ◽  
JOHN A. RIGG
Keyword(s):  
Selection Effect ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Post Onset

This article analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: pre-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a ‘selection’ effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the longer a disability spell lasts, whereas average income falls sharply with onset but then recovers subsequently (though not to pre-onset levels).

scholarly journals Experiences of Age and Gender: Narratives of Progress and Decline

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Nolan ◽  
Jacqueline Scott
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Aging Body ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

This article examines experiences of chronological age. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively verbatim responses from 8177 respondents aged 16 and over concerning the (dis)advantages of their age. Two main questions are tested: 1) Is the cultural narrative of age decline supported by the experiences of our respondents? 2) Are age experiences differentiated by gender? We find people's age experiences are multidimensional and multidirectional, incorporating narratives of progress and decline. Our data show marked gender differences in age experiences, but give little support to claims of a double standard concerning the aging body. More generally, we find that people contrast current experiences with their younger and older selves. We argue that future conceptual developments need to take seriously both a synchronic and diachronic understanding of age, highlighting not just the present but also the distinctive historical development of individuals across time.

scholarly journals The Effects of Teleworking on Housework Division and Well-Being of Couples

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleftherios Giovanis
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Household Chores ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between teleworking, gender roles and happiness of couples using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the Understanding Society Survey (USS) during the period 1991-2012. Various approaches are followed, including Probit-adapted fixed effects, multinomial Logit and Instrumental variables (IV). The results support that both men and women who are teleworkers spend more time on housework, while teleworking increases the probability that the household chores examined in this study, such as cooking, cleaning ironing and childcare, will be shared relatively to those who are non-teleworkers. In addition, women are happier when they or their spouse is teleworker, as well as, both men and women are happier when they state that the specific household chores are shared. Thus, women teleworkers may be happier because they can face the family demands and share the household chores with their spouse, increasing their fairness belief about the household division allocation and improving their well-being, expressed by happiness.

scholarly journals Assessing and Relaxing Assumptions in Quasi-Simplex Models

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Alexandru Cernat ◽  
Peter Lugtig ◽  
Nicole Watson ◽  
S.C. Noah Uhrig
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Available P ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
Simplex Model ◽  
Estimate Reliability ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Simplex Models

The quasi-simplex model (QSM) makes use of at least three repeated measures of the same variable to estimate reliability. The model has rather strict assumptions and ignoring them may bias estimates of reliability. While some previous studies have outlined how several of its assumptions can be relaxed, they have not been exhaustive and systematic. Thus, it is unclear what all the assumptions are and how to test and free them in practice. This chapter will addresses this situation by presenting the main assumptions of the quasi-simplex model and the ways in which users can relax these with relative ease when more than three waves are available. Additionally, by using data from the British Household Panel Survey we show how this is practically done and highlight the potential biases found when ignoring the violations of the assumptions. We conclude that relaxing the assumptions should be implemented routinely when more than three waves of data are available.

The Dynamics of Being Disabled

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
TANIA BURCHARDT
Keyword(s):  
Daily Living ◽  
Working Life ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Working Age Population ◽  
The Welfare State

In recent years, the dynamics of poverty and unemployment have come under increasing scrutiny, but another of the risks with which the welfare state concerns itself – disability – is still largely understood only in a static sense. This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the complexity behind a cross-sectional snapshot. First, a breakdown is given of the working-age population who are disabled at any one time by the ‘disability trajectories’ they follow over a seven-year period. Second, the expected duration of disability for those who become disabled during working life is examined. The results show that only a small proportion of working-age people who experience disability are long-term disabled, although at any one time, long-term disabled people make up a high proportion of all disabled people. Over half of those who become limited in activities of daily living as adults have spells lasting less than two years, but few who remain disabled after four years recover. Intermittent patterns of disability, particularly due to mental illness, are common. Failing to distinguish the different disability trajectories people follow has led to policies which marginalise disabled people and are costly to the state.

Sexual Division in Parenting: A Normative Context That Hinders Co-Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110380
Author(s):  
José María García-de-Diego ◽  
Livia García-Faroldi
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Images ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Using Data

Recent decades have seen an increase in women’s employment rates and an expansion of egalitarian values. Previous studies document the so-called “motherhood penalty,” which makes women’s employment more difficult. Demands for greater shared child-rearing between parents are hindered by a normative climate that supports differentiated gender roles in the family. Using data from the Center for Sociological Research [Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas] (2018), this study shows that the Spanish population perceives that differentiated social images of motherhood and fatherhood still persist. The “sexual division in parenting” index is proposed and the profile of the individuals who most perceive this sexual division is analyzed. The results show that women and younger people are the most aware of this social normativity that unequally distributes child care, making co-responsibility difficult. The political implications of these results are discussed.

scholarly journals The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peteke Feijten ◽  
Maarten Van Ham
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Disruptive Effect ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Union Dissolution ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Uk

Union dissolution is well known to have a disruptive effect on the housing situation of those involved, and often leads to downward moves on the “housing ladder”. Much less is known about the geographies of residential mobility after union dissolution. There are, however, reasons to expect that those who experienced a union dissolution have a different likelihood of moving over longer distances than those who stay in a union, because of different moving motives. This study contributes to the existing literature by investigating the occurrences of moves, distances moved and the destinations of moves after union dissolution. The paper also contributes to the literature by investigating the effect on mobility not only of divorce, but also of splitting up and repartnering. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and logistic regression models, we found that union dissolution has a significant effect on the occurrence of moves and on moving distances.

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