In surveys, large minorities of individuals typically report that they would like to change their weekly working hours at their current hourly wage. If this evidence reflects genuine constraints on choice of hours, the determinants of hours should differ between constrained and unconstrained...

We estimate dynamic panel data models of unemployment incidence for men using the British Household Panel Survey. Econometric issues concerning unobserved individual heterogeneity, genuine state dependence, and the initial conditions problems are addressed in detail. We find strong evidence of...

In recent contributions, Acemoglu and Pischke argue that wage compression induces firms to invest in general training. However, they consider only absolute wage compression. We extend their approach to consider relative wage compression and argue that wage compression as generally understood in...

Using representative data from the British Household Panel Survey for the period 1991--97, we document the extent of union coverage across standard and non-standard workers in Britain. Non-standard employment--defined in terms of contracts, places, times, and hours of work--involves...