This paper examines whether overtime regulations have a significant impact on hours worked and hourly wages, focusing on so-called “name-only managers,” a category of employees recently in the news in Japan. The term “name-only manager” refers to an employee who has essentially the same salary and authority as other employees, but who is designated by the company as a manager to exempt them fro...

The subresultants play a fundamental role in elimination theory and computer algebra. Recently they have been extended to Ore polynomials. They are de ̄ned by an expression in the coe±cients of Ore polynomials. In this paper, we provide another expression for them. This expression is written in terms of the \solutions" of Ore polynomials (in \generic" case). It is a generalization of our previou...

Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples This study investigates how spouses’ cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intrahousehold bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census, I show that the hours worked by US-b...

Little is known about variations in the levels of access and satisfaction within the disabled Medicare population. Based on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), beneficiaries under 65 years of age were classified by original reason for disability (mental versus physical). Those with a mental disability were less likely to have a private physician as a usual source; were less satisfie...

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign born white females and their husbands. We compare these to native born white women and their husbands. Our analysis deviates from the usual mean analysis ...

The assumption behind discrete hours labour supply modelling is that utility-maximising individuals choose from a relatively small number of hours levels, rather than being able to vary hours worked continuously. Such models are becoming widely used in view of their substantial advantages, compared with a continuous hours approach, when estimating and their role in tax policy microsimulation. T...