In this study, we attempted to answer the following quations: (1) To what extent did changes in premium rates and minimum earnings for the Unemployment Insurance Program, the Canada Pension Program, and the Quebec Pension Program have affected part-time employment in the 1980s? and (2) What...

This article presents an estimation of the incidence and the impact on wages of employer provided training in two countries with different legal systems concerning this type of vocational training, France and the UK. A selectivity bias correction method is used to estimate the real impact of...

Labour-force withdrawal program are an important unemployment policy instrument for certain governments in continental Europe. Two widely used interventions are government subsidised early-retirement programs and reduced working-time regulations. Most economists, however, have cast doubts...

This paper uses firm-level data to address the following issues; (i) Have wage differentials increased at the level of the firm? (ii) Are they any patterns in the levels and changes of these differentials? (iii) Do the same factors determine the pay of both low-skilled and high-skilled workers?

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job-to-job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper usese the IAB employment...

We explore the formation of a wage structure within a competitive firm that provides improved working conditions in order to reduce turnover within its labor force. The competitive firm must raise the funds required to pay for workplace improvements by, in effect, taxing its own employees.  A...

We explore the role of employer provided pensions on job mobility choices using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Defined benefit plans are found to have a significant negative effect on mobility. However, we find no significant evidence that the potential pension...

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...