, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where … particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …