Labour supply and workforce

This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries.

This paper uses a unique data opportunity provided by the British Household Panel Survey to systematically investigate the impact of recall on measured labour market behaviour and to highlight how and to what degree the biases in the reported data may affect the estimation of models of labour market dynamics.

We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption.

In this second article about the New Deal, Michal Myck, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies looks in more detail at the impact of a particular programme.

This IFS book (March 2002) reveals that mothers still face substantial hurdles in undertaking paid employment. For those who do manage to work, childcare arrangements are a diverse mixture of carers, cost and quality. Government initiatives to increase the availability of childcare places have a substantial shortfall to address while measures to increase the

e study the effects of risk and uncertainty on education and child labour in developing countries.

We consider the impact of taxation when investors face a discrete choice between two or more mutually exclusive projects.

In the first of two articles looking at the Government’s role in the UK labour market, Michal Myck, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, explores the rationale for the New Deal.

The Swedish model of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general lessons as to which type of programme works best.

This paper investigates how effective the Swedish labour market programmes have been in improving the opportunities of unemployed individuals over the last decade.

The paper evaluates the differential performance of the six main types of Swedish programmes that were available to adult unemployed workers enTitled to unemployment benefits in the 1990s: labour market training, workplace introduction, work experience placement, relief work, trainee replacement and employment subsidies.

This paper extends behavioural microsimulation modelling so that third round effectsof a policy change can be simulated.

Examining the labour market impact of in-work benefit reform in the United Kingdom.

This paper is an evaluation of the British labor market program the "New Deal for the Young Unemployed" using administrative panel data on individuals between 1982 and 1999.

Over the last two decades, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed, yet a sizeable discrepancy in earnings capacity remains between seemingly identical male and female workers.

In this paper I evaluate the New Deal in a historical and international context.

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

This evaluation focuses on the four models of EMA that were introduced into the