We examine how basic research should be financed. While basic research is a public good benefiting innovating entrepreneurs it also affects the entire economy: occupational choices of potential entrepreneurs, wages of workers, dividends to shareholders, and aggregate output. We show that the...

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different labor market cells, we develop new variants of the...

After the fall of the Berlin wall, the total fertility rate in East Germany tumbled from 1.7 (1989) to a stunning 0.7 children per woman (1994). While this fact is well-documented, little is still known about the crisis underlying causes. We propose a new explanation: permanent shifts in the...

Divisions of gender and work / Lena Gonäs, Jan Ch Karlsson -- Labour market inequality, past and future : a perspective from the United States / Chris Tilly -- Gendered divisions of work : a multilevel approach / Lena Gonäs -- Segregated integration / Ann Bergman -- Measuring gender...

Trabajadoras en la sombra: dimensiones del servicio doméstico latinoamericano / Séverine Durin, María Eugenia de la O y Santiago Bastos -- Mercado laboral, regulación y ciudadanos: presentación / María Eugenia de la O -- Las nuevas tendencias del empleo doméstico en España / Raquel...