Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards avoid investments in companies complicit in modern slavery (PRI 2021, 4). Responsible investors have long recognized modern slavery, including forced labor, child labor, sweatshops, migrant worker abuses, human trafficking—and still more...

The paper provides new evidence on the ability to work from home (WFH) for hundreds of Dutch occupations and examines how WFH is related to various occupation-specific characteristics. This is done by linking several publicly available datasets from Statistics Netherlands, which contain...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards do not permit complicity in modern slavery, human trafficking, or child labor (Principles for Responsible Investment [PRI] 2021, 4). And yet, the breadth and depth of oppressive labor practices in US and global corporate supply chains is, in...

A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) for the years 1991 to 2002 this paper studies the determinants of labour market...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo la estimación deltrabajo doméstico (reproductivo) en Colombia, realizadoal interior del hogar y su imputación equivalentea precios sombra, para lo cual se parte del enfoquede la Nueva Economía de la Familia desarrollado porBecker (1981; 1985) y la metodología...

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) for the years 1991 to 2002 this paper studies the determinants of labour market...

Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Frage, inwieweit Personalrecruiter das Internet nutzen, um den persoenlichen Hintergrund ihrer Bewerber auszuleuchten. Waehrend das Thema in den Tagesmedien ausfuehrlich eroertert wurde, beginnt die Forschung gerade erst, sich dafuer zu interessieren. Mit diesem...

Unequal outcomes for blacks and whites include earnings inequality, which increases with age, and differences in unemployment rates. I develop a matching model with search discrimination and human capital accumulation. Multiple equilibria exist, one with low unemployment rates and steep earnings...