The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … combination of commitments to the home and host cultures and societies, and links it to the labour market participation of … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …

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 …

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

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … 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 …

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

. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …

Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … 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 …