effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …

wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters … results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substan-tially lower shares of natives among their neighbors … particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …