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Estimating defection in subscription-type markets with down-sampled representation: Analysis from the scholarly publishing industry (2023)
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Roberts, M., Deza, I., Ihshaish, H., & Zhu, Y. Estimating defection in subscription-type markets with down-sampled representation: Analysis from the scholarly publishing industry

We explore the subscription-type market within the context of customer churn, and provide analysis on the business model of such markets, and how these characterise the academic publishing business. The proposed method attempts to provide inference o... Read More about Estimating defection in subscription-type markets with down-sampled representation: Analysis from the scholarly publishing industry.

Can we identify students in ASHE? (2022)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Securitization, covered bonds and the risk taking behavior of European banks (2022)
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Arif, A., Bottazzi, L., & Pastorello, S. (2022). Securitization, covered bonds and the risk taking behavior of European banks

This study investigates the impact of securitization and the issuance of covered bonds on the credit risk taking behavior of banks. We collected data for seven major European economies for the period between 2001 and 2014, that is, both before and af... Read More about Securitization, covered bonds and the risk taking behavior of European banks.

Weighting for employer non-response in ASHE (2022)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Unemployment and COVID-19 in OECD countries: Does the gender of head of state matter? (2022)
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Arif, A., Saeed, A., Naveed, S., & Azam, A. Unemployment and COVID-19 in OECD countries: Does the gender of head of state matter?

This paper analyses the differences in the COVID-19 situation and resulting unemployment growth in OECD countries with male and female heads of state. Our sample period covers three waves of COVID-19. We have performed the wavelet analysis to evaluat... Read More about Unemployment and COVID-19 in OECD countries: Does the gender of head of state matter?.

Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance (2022)
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Ritchie, F., & Whittard, D. Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance

The ‘five safes’ is a popular data governance framework. It is used to design and critique data management strategies across the world, and has also been used as a performance framework to measure the effectiveness of data access operations. We repor... Read More about Using the ‘five safes’ to structure economic evaluations of data governance.

Exploring the workplace location problem in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2022)
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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.