scholarly journals Producing Working-Life Histories in the UKHLS and BHPS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Wright
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Working Life ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Working Lives

The document describes a Stata algorithm for producing working-life histories for participants in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). It also describes in detail questionnaire items related to working lives from the two studies.

In and Out of Self-Employment, Are You Really an Entrepreneur: The Rise of a New Division?

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiba Maher Hussein ◽  
Moustafa Salman Haj Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Power ◽  
The Self ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This paper examines self-employed individuals in the UK Labour market. We use an amalgamated dataset, the British Household Panel Survey, from the years 1991 to 2008, and its successor the United Kingdom Longitudinal Study, from years 2010 to 2014, following 11,657 respondents in the UK for 23 years. We explore the characteristics of different self-employed groups and create a new division that differentiates those who sustain in self-employment from those who move between self-employment and employee jobs. The sample size consists of 1146 sustained self-employed, 1149 dabbled self-employed and 9362 paid workers. We found that dabblers exhibit unique set of attributes that place them in a distinct position compared to sustained self-employed and/or employees. Dabblers seem to be ‘pulled’ rather than ‘pushed’ into self-employment, reflecting a labour market ‘power’ instead of deficiency. Thus, bringing key insight into a group who have not been separately identified in the labour market to date, the self-employed dabblers.

Analysis of patterns of use, production, and activity in kid YouTuber channels. A longitudinal study through three cultural contexts: United States, United Kingdom, and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Martínez-Pastor ◽  
Ricardo Vizcaíno-Laorga ◽  
David Atauri-Mezquida
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Number Of Visits ◽  
Production Frequency

Abstract This paper analyzes the data collected about 5,388 videos from the 15 leading channels from Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States focusing on toys and in which the protagonists are children under 14 years of age (2011–2019). It aims to determine whether there are common patterns of use, production, and activity in videos by kid YouTubers. Specific software was developed to enable information to be gathered from the YouTube platform through the YouTube Data API by analyzing the date on which the video was published, length, number of visits, likes, dislikes, and visits/vote (visits/[likes+dislikes]). The main conclusions drawn are that a channel’s success is not dependent on a pattern or specific characteristics, although an impulse pattern has been detected; participation by children who consume content in the United States differs significantly from participation by those in Europe; and certain similarities based on video length and production frequency can be observed between channels.

Workplace and Health: A Survey of Classical Orchestral Musicians in the United Kingdom and Germany

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Beatrice S Harper
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Orchestral Musicians

This article presents the results of a survey that was carried out among UK and German professional classical musicians between November 2000 and April 2001. The UK Musicians’ Union and the German musicians’ union, the Deutsche Orchester Vereinigung (DOV), assisted greatly with the duplication and distribution of the questionnaires. Selected results have been disseminated to the respondents via the UK Musicians’ Union journal, Musician. A full report will appear in Cultural Trends, to be published in 2002 by the Policy Studies Institute, London. The survey covered many aspects of musicians’ perceptions of occupational health and safety, the provision of appropriate information, their general working conditions, and their health. One of the main aims was to bring to the forefront a discussion of musicians’ working conditions and to raise awareness of the range of problems that exist. Key findings identify areas of concern to the respondents, in particular, regarding the environmental conditions of their workplaces. Additionally, findings indicate the use and effectiveness of the measures used by musicians to ameliorate a range of occupational hazards. This article also reports the respondents’ hearing problems, and which medical and alternative practitioners the sample consulted in cases of work-related ill health. The contrasting structure of the profession determined the choice of the United Kingdom and Germany for this study. The UK classical music workforce is predominantly freelance, whereas in Germany there are relatively few freelance musicians, and most orchestral musicians have the status of local government employees. One of the aims of the survey was to elicit information that might indicate whether such different conditions of employment affect the working lives of musicians. This article is organized in two parts. The first part places this survey in context and discusses the particular range of health problems highlighted by the respondents. The second part presents the survey and its findings.

scholarly journals Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Extending Working Life in the UK and Japan

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW FLYNN ◽  
HEIKE SCHRÖDER ◽  
MASA HIGO ◽  
ATSUHIRO YAMADA
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Light Touch ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneur ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThrough the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, this paper discusses how governments use the levers of power afforded through business and welfare systems to affect change in the organisational management of older workers. It does so using national stakeholder interviews in two contrasting economies: the United Kingdom and Japan. Both governments have taken a ‘light-touch’ approach to work and retirement. However, the highly institutionalised Japanese system affords the government greater leverage than that of the liberal UK system in changing employer practices at the workplace level.

scholarly journals Associations between cigarette smoking and cannabis dependence: A longitudinal study of young cannabis users in the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 165-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandni Hindocha ◽  
Natacha D.C. Shaban ◽  
Tom P. Freeman ◽  
Ravi K. Das ◽  
Grace Gale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Cannabis Dependence ◽  
The United Kingdom
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