KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions for each state. Data from the 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book...

This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity atthe sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to datedespite the wide regional variations in informal care provision that often exist. This issue isimportant in the...

Discrete-choice models of labor supply have become very popular for ex ante evaluations ofpolicy reforms as they easily account for non-convex budget sets. We test the constraintsimposed in practice on these models and suggest a fully flexible model that significantlyimproves fit....

Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market tostudy the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. Tostudy the evolution...

This paper investigates the determinants of European financial analysts' forecasts differential accuracy.

Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht, statt der üblichen passiven Vorgehensweise, durch die Arbeitslosigkeit nicht verhindert werden kann, aktive Lösungen zu entwickeln, mit denen versucht wird, die von Personalabbau Betroffenen noch vor dem oder in direktem Anschluss an den Verlust des...