health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …

that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities … outcomes. Our results suggest that employment decreases the time that high school students spend on human …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits. …

The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally … effective minimum wage reduced employment among low-skilled, middle-aged female workers, but the mechanical effect associated …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 … employment. However, the effects are rather negligible and only amount to a 1.5 to 2 percent net loss of the change in employment …

We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of … indexation of the local minimum wage to the local cost of living. The revision of the Minimum Wage Act in 2007 of Japan … find that the minimum-wage hike raised the wages of low-wage workers, but reduced the employment of less-educated young men …