This paper examines the influences of a number of demographic characteristics and the duration of unemployment on the probability of leaving unemployment. This probability is found to decrease as the duration of unemployment increases, with married females having the highest probability of exit....

Two recent papers, Neal (1995) and Parent (2000) have presented evidence in favour of the importance of industry specific human capital. The authors argued that some or all of the previous evidence on firm specific capital may in fact have been spurious, due to a correlation between firm and...

This paper uses information from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and Displaced Worker Surveys (DWS) to provide evidence on the source of human capital specificity. Measures of four basic skills are constructed from the detailed DOT information. These measures are used to...

L'immigration recente semble se caracteriser par la frequence des retours ou des reprises de migration, d'ou d'importantes consequences sur la contribution qu'apportent les immigrants a l'economie de leur pays d'accueil. A un certain nombre d'immigrants, il peut en couter tres peu pour s'etablir...

Off-farm employment has become increasingly important as an aspect of resource adjustment and a source of income in Australian agriculture. However, it is surprising that there is a paucity of work on this topic reported in the agricultural economics literature. Therefore, we have drawn upon...

Separate identification of the price and quantity of human capital has important implications for understanding key issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated and they exhibit a strong secular trend. Three...