Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, Iinvestigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and ontemporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated,with the inclusion of country-specific...

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three keyfactors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and opensourcelicence type...

In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men andwomen. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. Thehypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatoryfirms by Black (1995) and an opportunity cost...

Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked tohours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group thatconsiders demographics and geographic location...

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families´ Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples inBritain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for therole played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using paneldata from the British...

This paper extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages byanalysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and netmarket wages...

We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a smallopen economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes...

We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economicsectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on thesubstitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformationbetween agriculture, manufacturing and...

Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf hat im Zusammenhang mit dem wachsenden Mangel an Fachkräften in Deutschland eine neue Dringlichkeit erreicht. Das Gutachten zielt darauf ab, das ungenutzte Arbeitskräfte- und v.a. Fachkräftepotenzial von qualifizierten, aber nicht oder nicht...

What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost laborenvironment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paperpresents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resourcemanagement systems at two garment...