The purpose of this study is to examine alternative pathways to labor force exit among older men. Based on the life course perspective, we distinguish between crisp exits from the labor force, which are characterized as being unidirectional, and blurred transition patterns, which include repeated exists, entrances, and unemployment spells. Using longitudinal data from the 1984 Survey of Income ...

The evaluation of policies designed to increase the early investment in children requires knowledge of the parents’ preferences for expenditure on children. In this paper it is shown that these preferences can be recovered using variables available in commonly used datasets. The method proposed in this paper improves upon the approach developed by Blundell, Chiappori, and Meghir (2005) in two w...

background accident is an event that occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen circumstances. accidents can have individual, social and economical effects 2080 injury cases including labor-law workers were studied in mashhad city, islamic republic of iran. their data were collected from the labor office archive. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effecti...

The wage elasticities of labor supply at the participation and hours worked margins are focal parameters of interest for understanding the work disincentive effects of taxes and transfers and the attendant design of optimal tax and transfer schemes. In this paper I use sweeping changes in U.S. tax policy, welfare policy, and the demand for skill over the 1980s and 1990s to identify the wage ela...

This paper employed the endogenous switching regression and propensity score matching methods to analyse the impact of row-planting technology on rice productivity using 470 rice farms in Northern Ghana. The empirical findings showed that the adoption of row-planting technology exerted greater positive impact on rice yields of smallholder farmers. In addition, rice yields of adopters and non-ad...