A life cycle model of labor supply predicts the presence of an
unobserved individual effect (log marginal utility of wealth) in the labor
supply equation which is correlated with the observed explanatory variables,
leading to an omitted variables bias in…

This paper presents evidence on two aspects of strike activity
associated with the renegotiation of union contracts: the effects of
contract characteristics on dispute probabilities; and the variation in
strike activity over tine within bargaining pairs. Cross-sectional and
longitudinal estimation…

A model of unemployment duration is estimated with weekly micro
data on a sample of Canadian men during the 1975 through 1980 period.
Entitlement provisions in the unemployment insurance program and demand
conditions are found to have a significant impact…