agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

subsequent educational and labour market outcomes to control for the dynamic selection of students into dual programs. Third … indirect effects (via educational achievement). We find evidence for short-term labour market advantages but only for the …

change sign (the wedge may become a premium). In any case, the same pension contribution will discourage labour less if the …

covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate that it is advantageous to adjust the stock of labour and capital … simultaneously. The cost advantage of simultaneous changes is small for capital but is large for labour. The empirical results … suggest that when estimating separate factor demand models the bias of parameter estimates is most severe in case of labour …

this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour …, we find that internship experience has a positive effect on labour market outcomes that diminishes over time, although …

countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions …, across different types of protective labour regulations (i.e. severance payment, minimum wages, working time), and for … different categories of outsiders (i.e. unemployed workers and employees without access to legally mandated labour benefits). We …

is lower female labour market participation and employment when compared to their counterparts in Tuscany, while we do …