The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The …

women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish … much, time on market work than wage-earning women. This raises doubts about whether women in Sweden chose self …-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. We suggest an alternative interpretation which is that women who chose …

identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …

Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain … significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work … externality that is internalized in Europe through laws on the minimum amount of vacation time (and maximum hours of work …

The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …. Assimilated immigrant women do better than those separated and marginalized, but those who develop an attachment to both cultures …

transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …