Most European countries have legal institutions regarding gifts and bequests that are more constraining than the United States. The purpose of this paper is to see whether those institutional differences generate differences in behavior. The paper focuses on the comparison between the United...

This article studies the behavior of the …rm when it is searching to …ll a vacancy. The principal hypothesis is that the …rm can o¤er two kinds of contracts to the workers, short-term or long-term contracts. The short-term contract is like a probationary stage in which the …rm can learn...

Cet article explore le rôle de la demande de travail des personnes âgées dans l’analyse des politiques de retraite et de préretraite. Plus précisément, nous utilisons les travaux de Lazear(1979) pour étudier le profil des salaires optimal au cours d’une carrière et l’âge de la...

Amazingly, one is used to hearing harsh statements about inefficient public services. Nor is it surprising to see public sector performance questioned. What is surprising is that what is meant by performance, and how it is measured, does not seem to matter to either the critics or the advocates...