, or as a trap, has tended to focus on transitions rather than longer-run pathways. This approach cannot accurately … identify indirect pathways from contingent to permanent employment, and nor can it identify 'trap' pathways involving short … Australian, evidence for the co-existence of pathways that correspond to 'bridge' and 'trap' characterisations of contingent …

In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired …-informed choices, and the impacts of choices on outcomes. We find that several characteristics of chosen pathways, such as field of … study and desired credential as well as early "momentum," affect outcomes. Student choices of pathways are not always driven …

Empirical analyses of twin mortality often use models with dependent unobserved frailty terms capturing genetic and … higher age. Estimates of correlations between the frailty terms by zygosity and the ensuing implications for the relative …

factors with frailty among older adults using a large, nationally representative cohort of community-dwelling Chinese sample … the association between risk factors and frailty and further calculated the absolute risk difference for the statistically … status as measured by educational attainment and neighborhood quality may increase the risk of late-life frailty among …

Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … labour supply. Surprisingly enough, the literature on the economics of transition has devoted little, if any, attention to … labour force participation decisions. In the models of the optimal speed of transition (OST) literature, the labour force is …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …