This paper examines the impacts of a large and anticipated government transfer, the Russian old-age pension, on labor supply, home production and subjective wellbeing. The discontinuity in eligibility at pension age is exploited for inference. The 2006-2011 Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey...

This paper demonstrates that downturns can affect job match quality by influencing job tasks. Cognitive and manual task shares and education-based over qualification measures are generated from Canada's Labour Force Survey and the O*NET database. Manual tasks are shown to be counter cyclical...

Industry wage differentials may result either from the structure of the industry (demand type) or human capital (supply type) characteristics of the employed labour force. This study uses two major data sets from Germany and the US that allow the investigation of the effects of these demand and...

The impact of a Temporary Help Agency (THA) job placement on an employee’s future employment status and labor market income is examined using NLSY79 data for the late 1990s. Several matching estimators provide gender-specific estimates of the effects of temporary agency employment on future...