transmission of work ethic. Values affect the size of the moral-hazard problem and, hence, the policy to be implemented. Conversely …, when parents rationally choose how much effort to exert to raise their children to work hard, they form expectations on the … generations and show that the different cultural traits, i.e. high and low work ethics, are complementary. The model could …

, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United …

decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with …

, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that … mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …

Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant … democracy implies both high taxes and pressure in favour of work-sharing in response to adverse shocks. This story, however …, falls foul of the simple fact that most Scandinavian countries now do much more work than the French and Germans despite …