Relatively little is known about youth unemployment and its lasting consequences in transition economies, despite the difficult labor market adjustment experienced by these countries over the last decade. This paper examines early unemployment spells and their longer-term effects among the youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), where the labor market transition is made more difficult by the cha...

The school to work transition and the early career path can be di cult for disadvantaged youth. Their labor market is usually studied ignoring the presence of the criminal sector, and yet a large share of them participate in crime. To study these outcomes jointly and explore how they relate, I build and estimate a two-sector search model allowing for a rich set of interactions between the two s...

OBJECTIVE An examination of the frequency and impact of workplace sexual harassment on work, health, and school outcomes on high school girls is presented in two parts. The first compares the frequency of harassment in this sample (52%) to published research on adult women that used the same measure of sexual harassment. The second part compares outcomes for girls who experienced harassment ver...

Drawing on insights from household production theory and using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, this paper seeks to provide the first estimates of the causal effect of maternal employment on the obesity status of older children in the Australian and international literatures. To achieve this aim, proxy variables, sibling-differences and instrumental varia...