Using a large panel of employees from the New Earnings Survey, examines the subsequent earnings transitions of those who were in the lowest quintile of the earnings distribution in 1976. Traces the quintile earnings positions in 1984 and 1991 of three age groups of 1976 – the young, the...

Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries.

Considers the relative effectiveness of using experimental training programmes. Uses the US experience of programme evaluation to make two main points. First, many of the key questions concerning the effects of training cannot be answered using simple estimators, even in the presence of...

Argues that the high job mobility observed most prominently among workers in Japanese firms is consistent with the behaviour of risk‐averse individuals when neither private nor public income insurance is widely available to displaced workers. Laissez faire is suboptimal and involves higher job...

Investigates the effects on quits of the current level of wages and the change in wages in order to test the proposition that the change in wages has a negative impact on quits, even controlling for the current level of wages. Finds that the percentage deviation in a worker′s wage change from...

Considers the determinants of income for employed indigenous Australians compared with other Australians. Applies ordinary least squares (OLS) regression techniques to 1991 census data to consider the question: does the lower income of these indigenous people compared with other Australians...