Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during … models for search effort that control for human capital, pay, local unemployment, gender, and time and country fixed effects …. These results are robust to disaggregation by gender and country and to individual fixed effects. These empirical results …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …

immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s …

impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … became larger when I did not control for industry, occupation, government employment, and human capital variables including …

, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap …

countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of di¤erences in social mobility and …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …