Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect employed friends have on the probability of exiting unemployment of an unemployed worker according to his/her educational (skill) level. Design/methodology/approach: In common with studies on unemployment duration, this paper uses a...

In this paper we investigate the role of workers' training history in determining current training-incidence. The analysis is conducted on an unbalanced sample comprising information on approximately 5000 employees from the first seven waves of the BHPS. Training participation is modelled as a...

Children from poorer backgrounds are generally observed to have lower educational outcomes than other youth. However, the mechanism through which household income affects the child's outcomes remains unclear. Either, poorer families are financially constrained or some characteristics of the...

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of femal participation to the labour market when there exists participation costs which vary with labour supply, and when total household's labour income are taxed. Extending previous attempts (Cogan [1981], Bourguignon, Magnac [1990]), we base the...