This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leaves in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals exit school to employment, unemployment or higher education...

The main contribution of this paper are that : the possibility that different instruments may affect different margins in explored, and, because of its potential importance, the linearity in schooling assumption is tested. The paper finds a large and significant downward bias in the least...

One of the distinctive features of schooling in England and Whales had been its stratified nature: parents may pay to send their children to "public" (i.e. private) schools, or use state-provided schooling which in turn has been divided in the past into areas where schools select by an ability...

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 paper carries out an analysis of wage discrimination on the basis of health on UK data with a number of important modifications. First we control for selection into health status. Second the direct effect of health upon productivity is accounted for and third, we examine discrimination with...

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...

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...

This paper argues that trade unions have a number of distinct and possibly conflicting effects on wages. This contrasts with the vast bulk of the literature which focuses on estimating a simgl measure of the union differential or "mark-up". We use data at the work-place level for the United...

This paper models the relationship between the union and its membership as a Principal Agent problem. The union sets wages subject to a labour demand curve. The level of wages is determined by union effort. The union negotiates as a monopoly union. Its utility is a risk averse function of its...