We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker’s network of former coworkers on his re-employment …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that … idiosyncratic risk increases during contractions in the labour market. Furthermore, we find evidence of insurance, both at the … household level and in the form of public insurance. However, private and public insurance mechanisms against an increase in …

retraining for new employment in the expanding sector. The paper derives an optimal welfare policy which combines the design of …) a wage subsidy to re-employed workers; (iii) unemployment insurance; (iv) moderate job protection; and (v) active labor …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …