developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in Indonesia, a … country where non-salaried work is widespread and where earnings data are available for salaried employees only. We deal with … the selection bias by estimating a full-information maximum likelihood system of equations, where earnings are observed …

prospect for the labour market for scientists, and other papers, which showed earnings differences between engineering … earnings for researchers, is still valid. The data used in this study is similar to that in our former work. The data is … first part of the study, earnings of engineers working in R&D will be compared with those of the other engineers. Using …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

dimensions. After explaining the empirical assumptions and laying the normative foundation, employment policy strategies …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

While much has been made of the value of employment relative to unemployment, much less is known about the value of …

the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation e ect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …