Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to simultaneously examine individual- and team-level predictors of workplace victimization by applying two-level modeling. Previous workplace victimization research has primarily been conducted on the individual level of analysis, which may be...

Belgium is characterised by a comparatively high tax wedge. Starting from the end of the 90's there has been a growing concern over the effect of high labour costs on the employment of low skilled workers. One of the most innovative measures implemented by the federal government is the targeted...

This paper reviews the literature on taxable-income elasticities, focusing primarily on empirical studies examining the U.S. tax changes of 1981, 1986, 1990, and 1993 and the bracket creep of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The paper first provides background on the importance of the elasticity...

We posit the time required for managing risky asset investment including conducting research and monitoring its performance. An economic agent, who should allocate a limited amount of time to labor, leisure and risky investment, is subject to the opportunity time cost, which is forgone labor or...

Using local variation between municipalities I analyse the degree to which availability and price of high quality publicly subsidised child care affect female employment following maternity leave. Importantly, prices are income dependent and thus likely endogenous, yet by exploiting information...

While limited attention has been analyzed in a variety of economic and psychological settings, its impact on financial markets is not well understood. In this paper, we examine individual NYSE specialist portfolios and test whether liquidity provision is affected as specialists allocate their...

All OECD countries but Korea have compulsory insurance programs for temporary disability,that is, cash benefits for non-work-connected sickness or injury. Despite the economic significance of these programs little is known about their effects on labor supply. This paper provides such evidence...

We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the distortive impact of an erroneously specified functional form for the preferences and/or the...

Parents who undertake paid work are obliged to spend time away from their children, and to use nonparental. This has given rise to concern that children are missing out on parental attention. However, time-use studies have consistently shown that parents who are in paid employment do not reduce...

Over half a million men of working age left the labour market over the course of the 1990s. In this paper this remarkable decline is explored, and the roles played by the interaction of skills, long-term sickness and the disability benefit system are highlighted. The analysis shows that the...