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Education, Human Capital and Work

Mark Bryan

ISER

markb@essex.ac.uk

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Types of measures and current practice

• Current education and training experiences • Qualifications acquired (stocks of quals are initial

conds)• Labour market status (inc (self-)employed) and

transitions; job search.• Firm and job characteristics – occ, ind, firm size• Experience of work/job – satisfaction, promotion

opps, hours preferences… • Earnings (inc overtime, bonuses) • Time spent on work (broadly defined) and work

schedules; commuting

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Types of measures and current practice

• Expectations and preferences (educ, training, promotion…).

• Pension arrangements and contributions• Others…• Commonly used surveys:

– LFS, BHPS, cohort surveys

– Skills Surveys, WERS

– NES/ASHE

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Some top level issues

• Are new measures needed to extend current practice?

• What are specific benefits from household and longitudinal dimensions?

• Continuity wrt existing BHPS; comparability with other surveys (UK and international)

• Definition of work: market work (second jobs), housework, caring…

• How much information about employer and job characteristics, IR environment, job quality?

• What measures of education, training, skills?

• Labour market status and transitions; promotions

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Definitional and data collection issues

• Measures and components of earnings (gross/net, total earnings, hourly rates, overtime, bonuses,…)

• Measures of working time (total amount, overtime, scheduling patterns etc); reference periods (pay period, “usual” week etc)?

• How often should stocks of educational qualifications be updated?

• What measures of training and skill should be collected? • Frequency of data collection, e.g. do job attributes need to be

collected every year? Less frequently or on job change? • Job and labour market transitions.• Potential for administrative data linkage.