The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec?s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber [1989] and extended by Lyssiotou et al. [2004]. The basic hypothesis...

This paper investigates the returns to formal and informal on-the-job training with an emphasis on gender wage differences. The analysis is based upon the French data set Formation continue 2000. We estimate a system of three simultaneous equations in order to take into account the endogenous...