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The perils of pre-filling: Lessons from the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earning microdata (2023)
Journal Article
Whittard, D., Ritchie, F., Phan, V., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Stokes, L., & Singleton, C. (2023). The perils of pre-filling: Lessons from the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earning microdata. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 39(3), 661-677. https://doi.org/10.3233/SJI-230013

The role of the National Statistical Institution (NSI) is changing, with many now making microdata available to researchers through secure research environments This provides NSIs with an opportunity to benefit from the methodological input from rese... Read More about The perils of pre-filling: Lessons from the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earning microdata.

Can we identify students in ASHE? (2022)
Working Paper
Phan, V., Ritchie, F., Whittard, D., Stokes, L., Forth, J., & Bryson, A. Can we identify students in ASHE?

ASHE is a key dataset in the UK, the only one which allows long-term analysis of flows in labour market status and earnings, and hence vitally important in the understanding of low pay and wage progression. Separating out students from non-student wo... Read More about Can we identify students in ASHE?.

The incidence of low pay is falling in Britain, but why – and can we trust the figures? (2022)
Working Paper
Whittard, D., Phan, V., Stokes, L., Forth, J., Bryson, A., Singleton, C., & Ritchie, F. The incidence of low pay is falling in Britain, but why – and can we trust the figures?

Recent research indicates that the percentage of employees in Britain who are low paid – earning below two-thirds median hourly earnings – has been falling in the last 6-7 years. It points to the increased ‘bite’ of the adult National Minimum Wage (N... Read More about The incidence of low pay is falling in Britain, but why – and can we trust the figures?.

Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide (2022)
Working Paper
Whittard, D., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L., Forth, J., Phan, V., Bryson, A., & Singleton, C. Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide

The Wage and Employment Dynamics (WED) project was funded by Administrative Data Research 2019-2022 to review, quality assure and enhance ASHE data. The project was also provided with ASHE data linked to the 2011 Census for England and Wales. This do... Read More about Enriched ASHE Quick Start Guide.

How do local banks respond to natural disasters? (2022)
Journal Article
Do, Q. A., Phan, V., & Nguyen, D. T. (2023). How do local banks respond to natural disasters?. European Journal of Finance, 29(7), 754-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2022.2055969

The increasing frequency and intensity of catastrophic natural disasters have the potential to stress and imperil banks to the point of compromised viability or even bankruptcy. Using data of approximately 907 domestic/local banks and Spatial Hazard... Read More about How do local banks respond to natural disasters?.

Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE (2022)
Working Paper
Stokes, L., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Singleton, C., Phan, V., Bryson, A., …McKenzie, A. Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. Weights are provided with the core dataset, which adjust the profile of the annual achieved sample suc... Read More about Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE.

Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution (2022)
Working Paper
Phan, V., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L., & Whittard, D. (2022). Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution

Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, de... Read More about Accounting for firms in ethnicity wage gaps throughout the earnings distribution.

Longitudinal attrition in ASHE (2022)
Working Paper
Forth, J., Phan, V., Stokes, L., Bryson, A., Ritchie, F., Whittard, D., & Singleton, C. Longitudinal attrition in ASHE

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. The survey operates on an annual 1% sample of employee jobs. However, the method of sampling - based on the final two digits of an employee’s Natio... Read More about Longitudinal attrition in ASHE.

Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2022)
Working Paper
Whittard, D., Ritchie, F., Phan, V., Forth, J., Bryson, A., Stokes, L., …McKenzie, A. Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is an important source of longitudinal linked employer-employee payroll earnings data for Britain. It provides accurate information on employees’ hours and earnings and information on the location of em... Read More about Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Effects of climate variability on households, individuals and firms (2021)
Report
Phan Dang, D. A., Dang, T. T. H., Do, X. H., Hoang, D., Espagne, E., Nguyen, M., …Pham, M. T. (2021). Effects of climate variability on households, individuals and firms. MONRE and AFD

On the occasion of COP26, this report is proposing an assessment of the socio-economic impacts of climate change in Viet Nam by 2050, based on the intermediary results of the GEMMES Viet Nam research project. MONRE and AFD have undertaken this ambiti... Read More about Effects of climate variability on households, individuals and firms.

Using ASHE to examine trends in low pay: Initial exploration of the data (2020)
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Bryson, A., Phan, V., Stokes, L., Ritchie, F., Forth, J., McKenzie, A., & Whittard, D. (in press). Using ASHE to examine trends in low pay: Initial exploration of the data. Bristol: Low Pay Commission

Using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2004-2019 we report consistent time-series estimates of the percentage of jobs on and around the minimum wage; low paid jobs above the minimum; and ‘high paid’ jobs. In doing so we report on some i... Read More about Using ASHE to examine trends in low pay: Initial exploration of the data.

Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap (2019)
Working Paper
Mergoupis, T., Phan, V., & Sessions, J. G. Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap

We investigate within the context of Vietnam how circumstances at age 15 or 16 relate to completion of upper secondary education four years later. We exploit the longitudinal elements of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey to identify ho... Read More about Puzzle me this? The Vietnamese reverse gender education gap.