In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...

We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with severalother surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EUaccession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, aswell as selection issues...

This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity atthe sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to datedespite the wide regional variations in informal care provision that often exist. This issue isimportant in the...

European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to lookinto joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employmentwithout a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are notaccounted for). Consistently...

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know whichcandidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, whilethe second coordination...

Using U.S. manufacturing data, Griliches (1969) found evidence suggesting that capitalequipment was more substitutable for unskilled than skilled labor. Griliches formulated thisfinding as the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The purpose of this study is todetermine whether the...