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How does the minimum wage impact on employment and hours?
James Cockett, one of our #DataImpactFellows, discusses research he undertook with colleagues at the Institute for Employment Studies to investigate the impact of the introduction of the National L...
Über die Kunst, Phänomene in den Sozialwissenschaften messbar zu machen
Eine wichtige Herausforderung der sozialwissenschaftlichen Umfrageforschung besteht darin, nicht direkt beobachtbare Merkmale (Phänomene) von Personen oder Personengruppen zu definieren und messbar...
Algorithms and ghosts
Stuart Mills concludes his series on data policy theory, exploring simulcara, doppelgangers and how much we really exist in a virtual world.
Three questions for ... Flooh Perlot
With the Democracy Radar, Flooh Perlot and his team at the Austrian Democracy Lab analyse the attitudes of the Austrian population towards questions of democracy. The researchers survey about 9,000...
Creating new poverty measures for the UK
The Social Metrics Commission has developed a new measure of poverty, which the UK Government has committed to build on to develop experimental statistics.
Harmonised data for comparative research [Information sheet]
Comparative social science research requires comparable data across countries, especially data at the level of individual people and households (microdata). More and more international databases ar...