BACKGROUND There are increasing numbers of families with both parents (or a lone parent) employed, which may impact on the ability of families to support healthy lifestyles for their children. Some studies have linked maternal, but not paternal, employment with childhood overweight, although most have been cross-sectional or reported over short periods. We investigated the relationship between ...

‘There is no overwhelming evidence of a significant expansion in this type of employment in the 1980s. The only employment forms for which the evidence of expansion is unambiguous are self-employment and part-time employment. The latter is in any case primarily both permanent and direct employment. Temporary and contract work, homeworking and black economy work are the employment forms where ex...

In this paper, we evaluate relationships between mid-life work experiences and the realization of preferences for full-time employment, part-time employment, and complete retirement at age 63-64. Using rich data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we demonstrate that the likelihood of achieving one's preferred employment status is related to earlier work experiences including employment stab...

In this paper I build an equilibrium search model of the urban Tanzanian labour market that explains the choice between wage and self-employment and the variation in earnings across and within these sectors. Self-employment is very common in urban Tanzania and survey data show both that there are large overlaps in the distribution of earnings in private wage employment and self-employment and t...

Purpose Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with difference-in-discontinuities analysis, the study finds that increasing minimum wage reduces employment probability of young males by 2.5–3.1 percentage points. Design/methodology/approach The authors exploit an age-specific rule – which sets lower for workers age 15 than adult paid to 16 and above its abolition estimate causal effe...

Labor market search-and-matching models posit supply-side responses to minimum wage increases that may lead improved matches and lessen or even reverse negative employment effects. Using event study analysis of recent increases, we find these changes do not affect the likelihood searching, but transitory spikes in search effort by individuals already looking for work. These results are driven c...