Showing 1 - 10 of 309
provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474351
The present paper examines the reservation wages reported by a largesample of unemployed individuals in the United … States in May 1976. The majorityof unemployedindividuals report reservation wages that are at least as highas the wage they … previous wages has a powerful effect on the individual's reservation wage. A ten percent increase in the U.I. replacement ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478157
reservation wages, including key policy variables such as unemployment insurance (UI), is scarce. In France, unemployed people … duration (PBD) on reservation wages and on other dimensions of job selectivity, using a difference-in-difference strategy. We … cannot reject that the elasticity of the reservation wage with respect to PBD is zero. Our results are precise and we can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455275
Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at home post birth. We provide new evidence of the labor supply effects of these leaves from an analysis of the introduction and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467550
The estimates confirm that a decrease in the generosity of the pension and DI schemes induces people to stay longer in the labor market, and that people with better health tend to retire later. We present extreme situations simulating what individual's retirement behavior would have been if only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458634
) surveyed employees. As an illustration in the second part of the paper, we consider the estimation of the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471772
This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472681
We decompose the real annual full time compensation costs of 1.1 million French workers followed over 12 years into a part that reflects their external opportunity wage and a part that reflects their internal wage rate. Using these components of compensation we investigate the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472705
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457078
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457370