Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …

born, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In …We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood … line with a collective labor supply model, the magnitude of these effects depends on relative incomes or wages within the …

elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …

concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature … product of hourly wages and labor supply in terms of hours and weeks worked. In addition to inequality in labor market …

urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …

observed in the 1980s, with an additional factor being that husbands’ real wages fell slightly in the 1980s but rose in the … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women’s labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands’ wages. Between 1980 … in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …

virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …