dataset on executives and outside directors of corporations listed on the Paris stock exchange over the 1992-2003 period. This …

individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a …-estimated the welfare gains immediately following reunification. The prediction error was largest for the young, the poorly educated …

local language are very high, but imported skills have zero (conditional) return. Furthermore, the welfare gain from the …

Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …

We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model … with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could potentially outweigh the negative welfare effects of … that, while both policy instruments can theoretically bring the economy back to previous welfare levels, careful thought …

from unemployment from a worker's perspective. We also quantify the welfare costs of cyclical fluctuations in involuntary …

welfare than assimilated ethnic minorities who live in less segregated areas. We find that a policy that reduces …