...Dominique Anxo; Thomas Ericson; Anna Herbert In this section, we develop a simple model to help us answer our research question. We derive 11 hypotheses about the determinants of continuing to work after standard age of retirement which will be tested in the empirical section. Our...

... the determinants of workers’ compensation insurance prices in Portugal. Multiple regression analysis was used to study the insurance price determinants. The independent variables considered are: payroll, number of employees, and incidence rate. In addition, three categorical variables were used: region...

...Kelly Steenackers; Marie-Anne Guerry Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of job-hopping. More specifically, the authors investigate the effect of age, gender, educational level, organizational size and sector on the job-hop frequency. Design/methodology/approach...

... are not always robust to different specifications. Further work is needed to better address the problem of endogeneity. Originality/value – The paper adds to the previous literature on the determinants of immigration flows by explicitly considering the labour market environment in destination countries...

... to the results from previous studies on developed economies. Following the labour economics literature, in order to determine the effects of obesity (BMI) on employment (EPL), wage rate (lnw), and the number of sick-leave days (SLD), and to formalize the causal relationships discussed, we formulate...

...Antonio Caparrós Ruiz; Lucía Navarro Gómez; Mario Rueda Narváez Purpose One of the major contributions of the literature on human capital has been to demonstrate the role of schooling as a determinant of wages. However, the exact size of the effect on wages and how it should be estimated remain...