Kenneth Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Cooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | formerly Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Employment Lottery: Risk and Social Security Benefits
Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with mea…
The Withdrawal from Paid Work of the Wives of Unemployed Men: A Review of Research
Evidence from surveys suggests that when married men become unemployed their wives tend also to withdraw from paid work. This apparent relationship between the labour supply behaviour of spouses has never been fully explained. One of the most frequently cited reasons for this effect is the very small amount that wives are able to earn without incurring deductions from the family's social security benefits, but other factors may be equally, or mor…
The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families
Social security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and…
The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families
Social security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and…
The Employment Lottery: Risk and Social Security Benefits
Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with mea…
The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families
Social security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and…
The Withdrawal from Paid Work of the Wives of Unemployed Men: A Review of Research
Evidence from surveys suggests that when married men become unemployed their wives tend also to withdraw from paid work. This apparent relationship between the labour supply behaviour of spouses has never been fully explained. One of the most frequently cited reasons for this effect is the very small amount that wives are able to earn without incurring deductions from the family's social security benefits, but other factors may be equally, or mor…
The Employment Lottery: Risk and Social Security Benefits
Income support policy towards unemployed families is based on certain assumptions about financial incentives and how these affect behaviour. In order to examine how unemployed people actually perceive financial incentives 55 unemployed families were interviewed in depth about their perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. The families were willing to accept fairly low wages but the main barrier to taking a low-paid job and supplementing wages with mea…
Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Social security (3 works) · Unemployment (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Work (physics) (2 works)