Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)
While financial incentives usually have a signifi cant effect on the labor supply of married women
and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males
especially, ...
This paper uses data forma cross-section survey of recent school-leavers in Northern Ireland to examine the relationship between personal and social characteristics and first destinations approximately 6 to 9 months after ...
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers
in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to de fine informality in a
relatively comparable fashion ...
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers
in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a
relatively comparable fashion ...
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets
in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we
conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap ...
Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if the firm hires an employee with high-expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, a small firm may attempt to ...