satisfaction of aspirations or expectations, and if these are affected by the individual’s previous experience of deprivation or … reference groups (for example, ethnicity and employment status). Fixed effects regressions allow for individual variation in the … scaling of satisfaction. The results show that year on year, individuals who have experienced a fall in income since the …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from … the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such … allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their need to combine work with child care, in southern Europe part-time jobs …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United …