Cross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender inequality tend to overlook socioeconomic divisions among women. This paper challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have uniform effects on the labour market attainments of all women, arguing that the impact of state...

"We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on characteristics that matter for labor market success. We reweight the NLSY79 to look like the NLSY97 along a number of dimensions that are related to labor market success,...

Der formale Berufsabschluss spielt in Deutschland für die aktive Teilhabe am Erwerbsleben eine entscheidende Rolle. Personen ohne Berufsaubildung tragen ein deutlich größeres Risiko arbeitslos zu werden, ihre Chancen am Arbeitsmarkt erfolgreich Fuß zu fassen sind schlecht. Dagegen zeichnen...

We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer their occupational human capital using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment a model of occupational choice...