...Lucas Duarte; Enlinson Mattos; Juliana Serillo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds and to estimate the response of labor supply to these publicly provided goods, and simulate the marginal social cost of cash‐cum‐in‐kind transfers...

..., constructions and quarries employ labourers through the intermediation of a labour broker (see for instance Breman, 1978 ; Gupta, 2003). In the brokerage system this agent connects the suppliers and those who demand labour in the labour market by supplying credit to needy labourers. Hence, the credit/labour...

...+ q_ij (11) © MCB UP Limited 1998 Economics Labour Pay Tenure A variety of theoretical and econometric studies have explored the relationship between earnings and job‐tenure. The basic hypothesis is that earnings are positively correlated with tenure. Topel (1986), Abraham...

.... This conception is easiest to grasp in a setting of trade liberalisation. In this case, any change that can be tracked to the change in the trade‐policy regime is defined as “trade‐induced”. © MCB UP Limited 1998 European Union Industry International trade Labour Single market During...

...John Creedy Explores tax structures in a two‐period, two‐good model, allowing for endogenous labour supplies. The model includes the specification of a joint distribution of wage rates facing individuals in the two periods. It also specifies a joint distribution of the various preference parameters...

... with the rest of the world is analysed. Examines the factor content of net trade with data on foreign trade between the OECD countries and then determines average capital‐labour ratio as the OECD average. Both the hypotheses receive empirical support. Finds that the two‐factor version of the HOV theorem...