Working papers

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses.

Using data from the Family Expenditure Survey we show that the abolition of the earnings rule in the UK increased the number of hours worked by men.

This chapter reviews developments to improve on the poor performance of the standard GMM estimator for highly autoregressive panel series.

This paper introduces a recursive algorithm with which to generate complete and accurate budget constraints using static microsimulation models.

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.

This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults.

This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960s.

This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey.

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity.

In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD countries since 1970.nonpara-metric statistical tests of stochastic dominance criteria to bivariate distributions.

This paper analyses the trade-off between the incentive effects of increased uncertainty and the welfare benefits of risk-sharing in the design of optimal tax schedules.

This paper examines the impact of fiscal incentives on the level of R&D investment.

We present a model of endogenous rm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth.

The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate.

This paper considers the relevance of a set of generational accounts in informing policy debate in the UK.

This paper analyzes the relationship between aggregate wages and individual

There has much recent academic and policy interest in the issue of spatial clustering of