We investigate the effects of child care costs on women's labor market decisions. Decisions regarding labor force participation and non-maternal child care are jointly estimated. Employing data from the 1998/99 Household Budget Survey and using a bivariate probit with sample selection and a...

In this paper we analyze the static labor supply behavior of married women in Greece using micro data from the National Household Budget Survey of 1998/ 99. To that end, a conventional Probit model is employed for the estimation of the participation decision; a typical OLS regression corrected...

In this paper we examine the establishment-size wage premium in Greece using a matched employee-employer dataset. The results of the econometric estimation suggest that indeed such a premium is present in the Greek market sector, too. Its magnitude is in line with those reported in other...

In this paper we investigate obese/non-obese wage differentials using microdata for white individuals from the 2000 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Using longitudinal information we estimated transition probability indices and synthetic mobility measures for moving in-and-out...