The purpose of this article is to determine whether there is any empirical evidence for the contribution of employer, or demand-side, determinants of the labour market intermittency penalty. The documented negative relationship between the size of the penalty and the labour market strength is...

Using matched individual-level data from the Current Population Survey, this article identifies a significant trend shift upwards in schooling among prime-age labour force leavers following the 2008--2009 recession. However, further evidence discredits skill mismatch as an explanation for that...

This paper finds that ignoring the endogeneity of wage and tenure in the determination of quit behaviour biases their measured effects on quit propensity of young workers toward zero.

Using the PSID and 2SLS estimation, this paper provides cross-sectional empirical evidence for the job-matching model. The empirical model which specifies wages as a function of expected tenure (rather than merely current tenure) more accurately describes the observed data.

This paper illustrates that even during periods of sustained economic growth, gains in family welfare may not be spread evenly across income classes.

The purpose of this article is to use observed changes in hours of work and labour force participation to draw inferences regarding behavioural responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. Using the Current Population Survey and controlling for differences in demographics, labour market...