This paper analyses child labour participation and its key determinants using the data sets of Peru and Pakistan. The results include tests of the 'Luxury' and 'Substitution' Axioms that play key roles in recent studies on child labour and child schooling.

This paper utilizes a panel data sample selection model to correct the selection in the analysis of longitudinal labor market data for married women in European countries. We estimate the female wage equation in a framework of unbalanced panel data models with sample selection. The wage...

This paper uses data from Peru, Pakistan and Ghana to simultaneously analyse child labour and child schooling, and compares them between these countries .We use a multinomial logit estimation procedure that analyses the participation and non participation of children in schooling and in...

This article investigates the determinants of entry and exit in the Austrian manufacturing sector based on 1981 to 1994 data. We study the response of entry, exit and other indicators of firm dynamics to changes in average plant size, size heterogeneity, concentration, incentives and vertical...

El objetivo del documento es dar continuidad al trabajo presentado en l Boletín SISD 27 (2000) que sintetiza para la década de 1990 el papel que ha desempeñado la educación en la explicación de las variables de la fuerza de trabajo y el ingreso. Los cálculos son realizados a partir de la...

It is well known that the labour force is a very important factor of production which influences the economic growth. The aim of this study is to develop an econometric model for describing the labour force supply. We analyze the main indicators of labour supply in order to identify the factors...

This study uses Nepalese data to estimate the impact of individual, household and cluster/community level variables on child labour and child schooling. The principal estimates are, then, compared with those from Bangladesh and Pakistan. The exercise is designed to identify effective policy...

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

This paper focuses on the observed empirical relationship between fiscal rules and budget deficits, and examines whether this correlation is driven by an omitted variable, namely voter preferences. We make use of two different estimation methods to capture voter preferences in a panel of Swiss...

This paper focuses on the observed empirical relationship between fiscal rules and budget deficits, and examines whether this correlation is driven by an omitted variable, namely voter preferences. We make use of two different estimation methods to capture voter preferences in a panel of Swiss...