We use panel data to examine the empirical determinants of the reservation wage– in
particular the influence of previous wages– and consider what this implies for the evolution of
the natural rate of unemployment. We ...
Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if they hire employees with high expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, small firms may attempt to maintain a ...
The large changes in relative wages that occurred during the 1980s provide fertile ground for studying the behavioral responses of married couples to the wage changes of husbands and wives. I find estimates of own-wage and ...
The standard public economics analysis of the welfare cost of labour income taxation is based on the estimation of labour supply functions that treat unemployed individuals as non-participants. This paper applies econometric ...
Various reasons have been put forward to explain the stylized fact that the wages of job starters are more procyclical than the wages of workers who don’t change jobs. I explore the theoretical and empirical basis for one ...
Le débat sur les incitations financières à la reprise d’une activité ne s’est pas éteint avec l’instauration de la Prime pour l’emploi. Notamment, le traitement de la dimension familiale dans les aides à l’emploi est un ...
Irish public service broadcasting faces enhanced domestic and international competition and increasingly the Irish public service broadcaster (RTÉ) is being called upon to justify the scale of the television licence fee, ...