Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers … employment. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we conduct a cross-national, multi-level analysis of the effects of social … policy generosity on single mother employment in 17 affluent democracies. We find high rates of single mother employment …

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even though we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …

negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …

.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …

rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

as employment, low pay, social transfers and poverty. This paper presents basic empirical evidence on the validity of … (wage compression) and employment performance, or between employment performance and poverty. Instead we find a strong and …, the incidence of low wage employment and social expenditure are also strongly and (negatively) related. We examine these …