luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes …

between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike …

integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap.Based on data from the 2014 … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …

increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist in a pension bonus, reductions in employers … of the career. We aim at evaluating the overall effectiveness of the ISP in rising the employment rate of older workers …. To that purpose, we compare the actual evolution of the employment rate after the implementation of the policies to its …

We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …

and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of these datasets and how to distinguish … real-time estimates of small business dynamics and employment during the pandemic are remarkably representative and closely … and openings from sample churn is critical for these results. We also find that while employment by small businesses …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset … on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …

Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the … job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less …