In this paper we investigate the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs, which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a theoretical model by Abowd and Ashenfelter (1981), which links the compensating wage differential to...

An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This...

The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...

1 Tindara Addabbo, Olga Rymkevich - Introduction -- Section 1: The evolving notion of autonomy and its consequences on social protection: A Theoretical Frame -- 1. Ylenia Curzi, Tommaso Fabbri - Autonomy in and beyond the Employment Relationship: an Organizational Perspective -- 2. Manos...