This paper examines the issue of whether hamonising taxes across the traded and non-traded sectors is desirable.

In this paper we look at one aspect of the growth trade relations as between the EU and the CEEC states, which reflects the pattern of trade. We argue that there is some evidence to support the proposition that a facet of this development reflects the different regulatory regimes in eastern...

Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage discrimination at point of entry to the labour market and also the issue od...

This chapter deals with the measurement of labour market conditions among Irish males over the period 1983-96. The central question addressed is how important is ti to take account of other indicators of labour market slack to supplement the information conveyed by the conventional unemployment...

The standard public finance analysis of the welfare cost of labour income taxation is based on the estimation of labour supply functions that treat unemployed individuals as non-participants. This paper applies econometric models of multinomial discrete choice to the labour market, explicitly...

This paper reviews previous research on Irish unemployment. It examines the reasons for the persistence of high unemployment and the relevence of the concept of a time-varying rate of "equilibrium" unemployment in a small labour market. The links between Irish and British unemployment, and the...

Most theories of involuntary unemployment predict that the equilibrium wage in the labor market will be greater than the reservation wage of the unemployed. Those theories concentrate on explaining why the labor market does not clear, with the market wage falling to the level of the reservation...

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of cognitive skill/functional literacy earnings. The IALS surveys 12 OECD countries and sub-regions via a consistent questionnaire and includes a number of tests of numeracy and...

About half of all vacancies are filled through networks of personal contacts. We consider the implications of such labour networks for inequality. Our central result is that referral networks display threshold behaviour.

If females have a higher probability of separating from job ex ante than males, then efficient cost sharing of the on-the-job trainig inplies females will have steeper tenure profiles. Becker and Lindsay (1994) argue that this is true empirically. Updating the analysis we find that the...