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...

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...

The reform of child support arrangements, including their treatment by the welfare system, has been on the policy agenda in a number of countries in recent years. This paper simulates the impact of a reform that recently has been implemented in the United Kingdom. The analysis is based on...