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This report documents the dynamic patterns in work and poverty for families using data for the years 2001 to 2006 from the Families and Children Study.

This paper studies the role of labour income tax policies when looking at wage inequalities.

We examine the wages of low skilled Canadian workers over the last quarter century and argue that they fit with an implicit contracting model with re-negotiation.

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace.

This paper looks at the value of pension rights in the context of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

We model the choice of individuals to follow or not apprenticeship training and their subsequent career.

presented at Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects.

This paper presents evidence on the social capital in one particular firm, as embodied in the friendship ties among its workers.

This paper estimates public sector wage differentials and their changes over time for men and women in the United Kingdom using panel data from the New Earnings Survey/Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for the period 1975 to 2006.

This paper uses within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms' overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms' home-country operations.

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of nonrandom selection into work.

We infer the employment response to a minimum wage change by calibrating a model of employment for the restaurant industry.

This paper decomposes the sources of risk to income that individuals face over their lifetimes.