Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less...

Globalisation has introduced a system of production where flexible work contract or sub-contracting and ‘putting-out’ system of production is becoming a general practice. Either as cost reduction strategy or as businesses strategy production is being out sourced and consequently a set of...

L’expérimentation du revenu de solidarité active conduite dans 34 départements volontaires sur une période allant de novembre 2007 à juin 2009 est sans doute la plus importante expérimentation sociale menée jusqu’à ce jour en France. Le RSA tel qu’il a été généralisé poursuit...

This study suggests that individual time is an important factor that needs to be considered in innovation research. We define two types of time work time and free time. We find that work time has a positive but diminishing effect on innovative output such that after a certain point the...

This study exploits the reduction of weekly working hours from 48 to 45 announced in Chile in 2001 and implemented in 2005. Our results suggest that non-anticipatory behavior of firms was found on key variables and several robustness checks confirm our results. Furthermore, we found that the...

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

Objectives: A combination of public and private clinical practice by physicians, referred to as physician dual practice, is present in numerous health care systems. The phenomenon has been receiving attention in connection with arguments about its negative impact for the public provision of...

Following the most recent recession, an attempt has been made to explain current levels of unemployment as resulting from structural unemployment, or a mismatch between the skills of the unemployed and the types of jobs available. The evidence, however, indicates that the issue is actually a...

American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...