This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …

private childcare services is more e¤ective in increasing women�s employment, fertility and inter-regional migration rates … grandparenting and, on the other hand, the shortage in the provision of formal childcare services in these countries. I develop a … than an increase in the availability of publicly funded childcare slots. Using ECHP data I �nd that families with children …

In several countries governments fund childcare provision, but in many others it is privately funded as labour … regulation mandates that firms have to provide childcare services. For this latter case, there is no empirical evidence on the … effects generated by the financial burden of childcare provision. In particular, there is no evidence about who effectively …

This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax …. Standard econometric specifications may substantially mis-estimate earnings responses to taxation. …

job-related factors, can significantly influence the decision to postpone retirement when this decision is in the hands of … an individual. Starting from the fact that the employment rate of older workers in Slovenia in 2011 was the lowest in the … its dimensions, its specifics related to age, gender, sector of economic activities and type of profession, as well as …

individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. Our modeling approach allows life expectancy and the nature of the … public pension system to influence the decisions of forward-looking individuals planning for retirement. We calculate that …, increasing the full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

seems the most appropriate manner to combine and pursue employment and financial sustainability goals. The method computes … retirement at standard/pivotal values for age/seniority. …

. Homosexual women, on the other hand, experience higher earnings than their heterosexual female counterparts, and the law shrinks … this gap over time. Our results suggest that although the earnings differential may be due to the marriage premium, anti … to marry could reduce the earnings inequality without creating potentially significant labor market distortions. …

channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results …

. This paper looks at the effects of the crisis on employment and earnings in the financial sector. It also considers how …