The relative costs of taking employment or receiving welfare are usually understood through comparisons of a person … replacement rates ignore the fact that age-earnings profiles slope upward through the acquisition of labour market experience. We …

and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and …

different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. This paper focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system … they will have low earnings; single women; women in couples; and men in couples. Over a 15-month period, boosting the … credit appears to have raised the labor participation rates, hours, and earnings of those who were eligible to receive it. …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment … and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …