The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

This paper tests the hypothesis that an increase in US trade with countries with weak effectiveness in the protection of intellectual property (IP) has expanded the threat of competitive imitation of US firms, and has contributed to the skill deepening of the 1980s. We draw on Thoenig and...

This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model, cast as a finite horizon, discrete choice dynamic...

This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model, cast as a finite horizon, discrete choice dynamic...

Maternal employment formed a central plank in the former Labour Government's strategy to reduce child poverty. Even where potential jobs were low-skilled and low-paid, policy was explicitly work (rather than training) first, and lone parents in particular were given direct and indirect financial...