Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic discrimination in many countries. Indirect evidence shows that on average at least 8% of the gender employment gap and a larger proportion of the gender wage gap can be attributed to discrimination. Virtually all O...

A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with non-clearing labour markets and imperfect competition is estimated for 21 OECD countries. The model provides for parameters both for preferences and technology and for the degree of structural rigidities on labour and product markets. These parameters are matched with policy indicators, establishing a relation between the model-based employmen...

This paper reports on the ongoing work focused on domain adaptation of statistical machine translation using domain-specific data obtained by domain-focused web crawling. We present a strategy for crawling monolingual and parallel data and their exploitation for testing, language modelling, and system tuning in a phrase-based machine translation framework. The proposed approach is evaluated on ...

Based on historical experience, in Bulgarian labour legislation, recent years the problem of state its codification has become more and pronounced. This condition is alarming. In presence a reasonable, comprehensive code, laws are being constantly adopted separate issues that either do not regulate anything specific, or repeat provisions Labour Code. Furthermore, body by-lawskeeps expanding unc...

In 2003, the Japanese Diet passed legislation to abolish part of the special deduction for spouses (Haigusha Tokubetsu Kojo) which would take effect in the 2004 tax year. This paper investigates the impact of this tax reform on female labour supply in Japan. A number of earlier studies have shown that married women are likely to adjust their labour supply in order for their husbands to become e...