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Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and the Incidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe: 1995-2001

The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. The countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. I find that among men the wage premium ...

Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being

People do not adapt to income changes: A re-evaluation of the dynamic effects of (reference) income on life satisfaction with GSOEP and UKHLS data

Do people adapt to changes in income? This paper shows that there is no evidence of adaptation to income in GSOEP (1984-2015) and UKHLS (1996-2015) data. Following the empirical approach of Vendrik (2013), I arrive at this surprising answer by estimating (dynamic) life satisfaction equations, in which I simultaneously enter contemporaneous and lagged terms for a respondent’s own household income and ...

Income Taxation and the Supply of Labour in West Germany

Job Satisfaction: A Comparison of Standard, Non-Standard, and Self-Employment Patterns across Europe with a Special Note to the Gender/Job Satisfaction Paradox

Standard and non-standard employment: gender and modernisation in European labour markets

On the Edge of the Millennium (1994-2001): Transitional Labor Markets in Europe with a Special Note on the Employment-Family Crunch

Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Gender-job satisfaction differences across Europe: An indicator for labor market modernization