system, people are in effect rewarded for being unemployed (through the unemployment benefits) and penalized for being … employed (through the taxes that finance the unemployment benefits). The UA system alleviates these externality problems. For …

75% to 100% of the full minimum wage applied to employees younger than 18. Our results show a widening of the gender wage … change was mainly determined by a redistribution of fringe benefits and overtime payments. We discuss three possible sources … minimum wage, (ii) industrial differences in response to the changes in the wage floor, and (iii) discrimination. Estimations …

employers choosy about hiring the old. The advent of "age discrimination" law reinforces employment protection and may well …

Gay/bisexual workers tend to earn less than other men. Does this occur because of discrimination or because of … discrimination effects from selection effects. Using a large sample of recently graduated men in the Netherlands, we find that gay … labor market discriminates against gay/bisexual workers. They rather support the selection story, most prominently observed …

) employment; (iii) health (iv) partner relationships; (v) children; (vi) friendship networks; and (vii) education. Lesbian, gay …Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of …