determinant of the career decisions of young workers. Building on the search-theoretic career choice and job mobility model … more likely to lead to amplified mobility and generate mismatch. Given a network size, I find a strongly positive … mobility patterns among young workers. The model can explain why it takes much longer for blacks – whose informal networks are …

reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …

. First, taxes on formal employment generate a wedge between formal and informal size wage gaps. Thus, government policy can …

employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … find that increasing the minimum wage substantially reduces the employment of young males. In terms of magnitudes, the … employment probability declines by 2.5-3.1 percentage points at the 16-year-old age cut-off. Moreover, the probability of …

focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable … employment—possibly due to a decline in reservation wages. Accordingly, wages decline, hours of work increase, and job search …

-educated women with high fertility.We show that employment rates and economic independence indicators have improved for those women … empowerment of women reduces domestic violence against them by balancing bargaining power within the household …

Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the … general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency employment is …