I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …

The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …. Assimilated immigrant women do better than those separated and marginalized, but those who develop an attachment to both cultures …

. Empirical evidence studying economic behaviour like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …

to provide a macroeconomic perspective on the microeconomic problem of why people don't find work. The first section … business cycle theory. The second section deals with imperfect information as an impediment to finding work: search theory …

The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year …-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using … panel data probit regression models, the paper also investigates why men’s and women’s participation rates differ, comparing …

Some existing welfare programs (“work-first”) require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others (“job … can assist the agent’s job search and can mandate the agent to work, and (ii) agents’ skills depreciate during …-search assistance requires large reemployment subsidies. The optimal program features compulsory work activities for low levels of …

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …

considered in the context of their path-dependent career trajectories. In particular, we focus on the ability of scientists to … scientists choose to commercialize their knowledge. We use a hazard model to estimate the duration over a scientist's career to …