Effective monitoring of a minimum wage, requires that establishments potentially paying low wages are effectively identified. This paper investigates the identification of establishments paying low wages prior to the introduction of the British National Minimum Wage in 1999, through the...

This paper uses revealed preference inequalities to provide tight nonparametric bounds on consumer responses to price changes. Price responses are allowed to vary nonparametrically across the income distribution by exploiting micro data on consumer expenditures and incomes over a finite set of...

This research develops semiparametric kernel-based estimators of state-specific conditional transition intensitiesm, hs (y|x), for duration models with right-censoring and/or multiple destinations (competing risks). Both discrete and continous duration data are considered. The maintained...

In This paper we extend the sensitivity analysis of cross-country growth regressions of Levine and Renelt (1992), by introducing a semiparametric fomulation of their regression function.

In this paper we propose two test statistics for testing serial correlation in semiparametric time series model that could allow lagged dependent variables as explanatory variables .

This paper uses the 1998-99 Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS) data to examine the health-income relationship that underlies the absolute income hypothesis. To allow for nonlinearity and data heterogeneity, we use a partially linear semiparametric quantile regression model. Among...

In Finland the elderly unemployed are allowed to collect unemployment benefits up to the age of 60, when they can retire via a particular unemployment pension. In 1997 the eligibility age of persons benefiting from this scheme was raised from 53 to 55. We consider layo􀀞 risks, unemployment...

The report studies the distribution of income, expenditure, direct taxes and public transfers with respect to the age of household?s head. The data tonsist of five household budget surveys from the period 1971-1990 collected by Statistics Finland. The age- and cohort profiles of the variables...