estimated premium for above average beauty is only slightly larger than that estimated for women elsewhere, and the penalty for …

unemployment rate equation is also estimated for different categories of workers. While men and women are equally affected by …

endogeneity of income in a new way by using a simulated instrumental variable based on a fixed EU-wide sample of women. Results … percentage points. The effect is higher for single mothers, for women in the middle of the skills distribution, and in countries …

behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using … that cross-country differences in the employment rate and the persistence of employment transitions of married women are …

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six hours a week; and 150 hours a year. The 1985 amendments exempted … a variety of occupations and industries from such overtime restriction on women. We first define "jobs" using an … exempt from the overtime restriction on women by the 1985 amendments. Applying a difference-in-difference model to census …

This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime …. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution zones were opened in nine cities under … different regulation systems. We provide evidence that the opening of these zones was not in response to changes in crime. Our …