Labour supply and workforce

Current labour force counting relies on general guidelines set by the International Labour Office(ILO) to classify individuals into three labour force states: employment, unemployment and in activity. However, the resulting statistics areknown to be sensitive to slight variations of operational definitions prima facie consistent with the general guidelines. In this paper two alternative classification criteria are considered.

This paper presents a new estimator for the mixed proportional hazard model that allows for a nonparametric baseline hazard and time-varying regressors. In particular, this paper allows for discrete measurement of the durations as happens often in practice.

This paper presents results from a Monte Carlo study concerning inference with spatially dependent data. It investigates the impact of location/distance measurement errors upon the accuracy of parametric and nonparametric estimators of asymptotic variances.

This paper examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity.

We present evidence on whether workers have social preferences by comparing workers' productivity under relative incentives, where individual effort imposes a negative externality on others, with their productivity under piece rates, where it does not.

This paper estimates the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) associated with a demogrant and an in-work benefit for the UK since 1979, taking account of extensive as well as intensive labour supply responses.

This paper looks at the impact of Opportunity Bursaries on young adults who received payments in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

This paper looks at the impact of the Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge programme on pupils who have been exposed to it for one year.

This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women.

In this paper we try to answer the question of whether the replacement of FC by WFTC encouraged take-up.

This paper uses a structural model of labour supply and programme participation to evaluate the labour market impact of Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC).

We use a difference-in-differences methodology to evaluate the labour market impact of Working Families' Tax Credit.

This survey covers recent solutions to aggregation problems in three application areas, consumer demand analysis, consumption growth and wealth, and labor participation and wages.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large welfare program in rural Mexico.

This note looks at the changes in employment and Labour's policies since 1997 and review the proposals of the three main parties in this area.

The analysis in this paper is motivated by the controversial empirical findings and by recent developments in econometrics for partial identification.

In this report, we assess the short-term impact of the Colombian welfare programme Familias en Acción on consumption and its components.

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the program in terms of enhancing the (re)employment probability of participant males.

This paper investigates the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps.