Studying the relation between workers’ nationality and their commuting time has been of paramount importance in countries with high immigration rates and ethnical heterogeneity. Most of these studies focus on the spatial mismatch of racial minorities, and consider urban and social structures...

Using data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we identify workers who report having skills or qualifications for a more demanding job than the one they hold at the time of the interview. These overeducated workers are distinguished from non-overeducated workers. We further...

This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of Mortensen and Pissarides' (1994) model of job creation and destruction when workers' effort is not perfectly observable, as in Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984). An occasionally-binding no-shirking constraint truncates the real wage distribution from below,...