fixed-term contracts. The paper discusses problems arising in empirical estimation, and how to address them. It concludes …

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which … run workers who have experienced a change in their employer can expect a career trajectory in line with the theory on … wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …

fluctuations. By contrast, statutory minimum wages reduce the difference in the sensitivity of wages to aggregate shocks between …

measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 … on whether we use net or gross, and monthly or hourly wages, and show how important selection correction is for the … comprehensive analysis of the effects of using different methods and the issue of selection-correction in the estimation of the wage …