We consider a dynamic model for the participation decision to thelabour market of the women who live in couple.We estimate a dynamicprobit model with random effects using the french part of the Europanel,for the period going from 1994 to 2001 and using a simulatedmaximum likehood estimator....

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’wage formation in France. Our model makes it possible to distinguish between unobservedperson heterogeneity and state-dependence. We estimate the model using state of the artbayesian methods employing a long...

In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become selfreliantwas implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstrationrandomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare betweenJanuary 1994 and March 1995....

Job-search counseling is a potentially desirable labor market policy because it reduces market frictions, but it is strongly work-intensive as it requires repeated individual contact between job-seeker and case worker. Although it has become widely used, little is known about its...

In this paper we highlight the link existing between economic growth and inequality. Using the FH-DADS panel data set, resulting from the matching of Pôle Emploi (French National Employment Agency) historical database and the "Déclarations Annuelles de Données Sociales” data set (DADS), we...

We jointly model fertility and participation decisions of women who livein couple using a dynamic model. In this paper we analyze the labour supplyand the fertility decisions of married or cohabiting women in France, Spain,Germany, UK and Denmark. We estimate, for the period going from 1994...