Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation. T...

a period of years, endeavored to offset the low salary disadvantages of government employment by offering special training and educational opportunities. The student trainee program is initiated by announcements, followed by direct contacts with teachers and students. Selected groups of high school graduates and college students are brought in to work as technical aides for the summer period. N...

We ask whether women’s decisions to be in the workforce may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not captured by standard models. We develop a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women’s (or families’) utility functions. In this model, the entry of some women into paid employment can spur the entry of other women, ind...

The dynamic of Israeli women’s labour market experiences is analysed, with the focus on three main determinants of their attachment to the labour market: (i) family events, particularly the effect and timing of childbirth on women’s market involvement, (ii) human capital, and (iii) structural determinants, including occupation, and sector of employment. Utilizing data from the 2001 mobility stu...

Introduction and Aims. One of the most substantial costs of drug use is lost productivity and social functioning, including holding of a regular job.However, little is known about employment patterns of injection drug users (IDU).We sought to identify factors that were associated with legal employment among IDU. Design and Methods.We describe the employment patterns of participants of a longitu...

6 Kapos [9], analysing employment intensity (the effect of economic growth on employment or the employment intensity of economic growth), between 1991 and 2003, for 160 countries, from different regions of the world, shows that, at global level, employment elasticity has decreased, fact that reflects the employment performance following the global economic slowdown. According to the author’s es...

On July 1, 1996, Employment Insurance (EI) replaced the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program.1 Although the two programs are broadly similar, there are some important differences, including the differential treatment of frequent and occasional claimants and the introduction of an income top-up for low-income recipients with children under EI. Overall, these reforms bring more restrictive benefit...

In a perfectly stationary physical environment of the labor market, moral hazard and optimal termination in long-term contracts can generate two-period and much longer cycles in employment and output, and in other aggregate activities, including the creation and destruction of jobs, and the flows of workers entering and exiting employment. This theory sheds light on the unemployment volatility ...