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 uses household, school, and test score data from Bangladesh to compare and contrast the effectiveness of NGO …

dataset obtained from a small microfinance institution in Bangladesh, the paper then presents some first empirical evidence on … originates from a field study with self-selection problems rather than a randomized controlled experiment, further studies are …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from … are often involuntary and provide significantly lower job satisfaction than fulltime ones. Women are also over …

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 …

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 … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …