Labour supply and workforce

How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a lifecycle perspective.

Objectives: To extend research on workforce participation beyond age 50 by describing entire employment histories in later life and testing their links to prior life course conditions.

We evaluate the long-term impacts of a randomized Colombian training and job placement program.

We study how women’s choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable trajectory out of poverty.

On the importance of taking a life-cycle view in understanding generational issues.

In China, the employment rate among middle-aged and older urban residents is exceptionally low. This paper investigates potential explanations of this low level of employment in urban China.

Many governments are considering expanding childcare subsidies, but little is known about the impact of such policies on parent’s labour supply. Exploiting free childcare eligibility rules based on date of birth in a difference-in-differences framework, we compare the effects of offering free part-time childcare and of expanding this offer to the whole school day. Free part-time childcare only affects the labour force participation of mothers whose youngest child is eligible. Expanding from part-time to full-time free childcare leads to significant increases in labour force participation and employment of these mothers, which emerge immediately and grow over the months following entitlement.

Lone Parents, Time-Limited In-Work Credits and the Dynamics of Work and Welfare

The success of universal preschool education depends crucially on the policy parameters and specific country context.

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context.