This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide ...
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources
at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely
to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies ...
We explore the significance of intra-couple and intra -household influences on three broad types of employment contracts: self-employment, performance related pay, and salaried employment. Individuals may pool income risk ...
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 ...
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 ...
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic ...
This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic ...
We consider three broad types of employment contract vis, self-employment, PRP, and fixed wage
employment. We focus on the implied degree of income risk associated with each type of employment contract,
arguing that such ...
Modelling the incidence of self-employment has traditionally proved problematic. Whilst the individual supply side characteristics of the self-employed are well documented, the literature has largely neglected (or misspecified) ...