The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences … between high productivity growth industry sectors and low productivity growth industry sectors. …

on work arrangements in key industries. It is complemented by the Productivity Commission's report, International …

well as unobserved. We argue that recent research on working hours has focused almost exclusively on the supply of labor …

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …

raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …

There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market …-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates of New Zealand’s productivity growth measured either in terms of … GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …

market is costly (in opportunity costs, education costs, or skills maintenance) and one group starts with a worse employment … social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance …

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … wages, trade unions, employment protection legislation, active labor market policy. In each case we begin with description …This publication is a non-technical report prepared for Polish Ministry of Economy and Labor. The main goal is to …