This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalizationof foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworkertradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination ofthis form: taste-based discrimination arising...

The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges, it is important to understand the impact of a worker's age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in Germany and Norway are treated differentlyin the hiring process. (...)

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the genderwage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown thatin three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insuranceindustry) the unexplained and...

This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the “paradoxof the contented female worker”. After establishing that females report higher levels of jobsatisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB andgender segregation...

Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...

Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employmentrates and earnings amongst disabled people in Britain. But very little is knownabout the progression of disabled people in employment. This study uses datafrom the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market...

Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the UnitedStates, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition ofemployment at the firm’s 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects forseveral departments and job...

In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from theHousehold, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of thiselasticity is of particular interest not only in its own right but also because of its relevance tothe debate about the...

This paper estimates the impacts of weight, measured by body mass index (BMI), onemployment, wages, and missed work due to illness for Russian adults by gender, in orderto better understand the mechanisms through which obesity affects employment, wages,and sick-leave days using recent panel data...