Introduction to human capital and economic growth -- The concept of human capital : a brief historical review -- Theoretical models of human capital and economic growth -- Human capital and endogenous models of economic growth -- Threshold effects, multiple equilibria, and nonlinearities in...

This paper examines the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and welfare programs on the labor supply of single mothers. The EITC consists of an earning subsidy program in the form of marginal tax credits to the working poor. The presence of different marginal tax rates at the various...

We study the wage-change distribution in union contracts reached in Canada between 1976-1999. We use non-parametric tests to check for nominal wage rigidity and find that it is present during low inflation periods.