The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact onnational labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also variedgreatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum...

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-timework and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account forinterdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the BritishHousehold Panel Survey...

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. We propose a simple theoretical model with politicians facing a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The model has a testable...