Louis N Christofides
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 957144 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louis N Christofides |
| PRENOMES | Louis N |
| SOBRENOME | Christofides |
| ASSINATURA | CHRISTOFIDES L N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cyprus |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ in Europe
The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language
Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with enhanced earnings because of its actual value in the workplace, or its value as a screen for ability. Previously available data did not indicate whether bilingualism was actually practiced. The 2001 Census reports, for the first time, the primary and secondary languages used at work. Conditioning on both language knowledge and language use determines the additional earnings that can be at…
Recent Two-Stage Sample Selection Procedures With an Application to the Gender Wage Gap
Recently developed two-stage estimation methods of sample selection models are used, in the context of data from the 1989 Labor Market Activity Survey, to examine labor supply decisions and wage outcomes for employed men and women. Recent hypothesis test procedures are used to test for no sample selection and to test for a parametric against a semiparametric selection-correction procedure. We conclude that selection is indeed an issue for the sam…
Nominal Wage Rigidity in Contract Data
Using wage agreements reached in the Canadian unionized sector during 1976–99, a period of high as well as exceptionally low inflation, we consider how histograms of wage adjustment changed as inflation reached the low levels of the 1990s. The histograms and parametric tests suggest that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity and significant spikes at zero. There is some evidence of modest menu‐cost effects. We examine whet…
Wage Rigidity in Canadian Collective Bargaining Agreements
The authors search information on the provisions of 10,947 wage contracts signed in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976 and 1999 for evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity (the disinclination of wages to fall, in nominal dollars, below their established level). Over the sample period, real wage reductions were common, but nominal wage reductions were rare. The probability of downward nominal wage rigidity increased substantially during…
The Gender Wage Gap
The gender wage gap in paid employment was studied using data from the 1991 Survey of Household Expenditure and Income for Cyprus, a country which aspires to join the European Union. Selection from a sample which includes more than paid employees was taken into account. It was found that average weekly wages for women are about 60 percent of those for men. Approximately 60 percent of the observed gender gap can be explained by differences in aver…
Social assistance and labour supply
The longitudinal, 1988–89 LMAS makes it possible to study the interaction between social assistance and labour supply while allowing for substantial time dependence. Tobit equations for hours worked on and off social assistance, which allow for endogenous selection of social assistance status, are estimated by using FIML. Small, but statistically significant, effects for a social assistance benefit variable are obtained, particularly for females.…
Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour
Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour
Unemployment Insurance
Wage Determination by Gender and Visible Minority Status
L. N. Christofides, R. Swidinsky, Wage Determination by Gender and Visible Minority Status: Evidence from the 1989 LMAS, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 34-51
Employment Flows and Job Tenure in Canada
Data from Canada's 1986-87 Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS) are used to study the pattern of employment flows, and to construct various estimates of average job duration. A subsample of 58, 458 observed jobs are classified according to their start dates and their termination date, if any. Thus our sample consists of both completed and censored employment spells. In the case of terminations, data are available on the reason for employment endi…
The Interaction between Indexation, Contract Duration and Non-Contingent Wage Adjustment
A model of the elasticity of indexation, contract duration and non-contingent wage adjustment is estimated using Canadian wage agreements. Results suggest that the degree of indexation and contract duration are interdependent and are affected by their past values, labour market conditions and inflation uncertainty. The correlation between the industry product prices and the CPI affects the degree of indexation. Non-contingent wage adjustment depe…
Wage Adjustment in Contracts Containing Cost-of-Living Allowance Clauses
Wage Determination in the Aftermath of Controls
The Impact of Controls on Wage Contract Duration
Incomes policies invariably arouse considerable opposition. It is claimed that they are costly to administer, that, by tinkering with relative prices, they riddle the economy with inefficiencies and that they politicise economic life. It is also argued that where controls do have an impact on wage rates and prices, a point which is by no means universally conceded, agents are driven to (costly) behaviour designed to neutralise effective wage and …
The Effect of Settlement Stage on Negotiated Wage Settlements in Canada
This paper analyzes the effect of the particular stage of wage settlement on the negotiated wage increase, using micro data on Canadian labor contracts between 1966 and 1975. The sample data base was divided into direct first-stage bargaining, mediation-conciliation, and work stoppage/arbitration, and structural wage equations were estimated for each set of data. The results indicate that as negotiations move from direct bargaining to work stoppa…
A Microeconometric Analysis of Spillovers within the Canadian Wage Determination Process
Louis N. Christofides, Robert Swidinsky, David A. Wilton, A Microeconometric Analysis of Spillovers within the Canadian Wage Determination Process, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 62, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 213-221
A Microeconometric Analysis of the Canadian Wage Determination Process
The objective of this paper is to analyse the Canadian wage determination process using micro-data derived from individual union wage contracts, signed during the 1966-1975 time period. Conventional wage studies based on aggregate time series are subject to a number of important econometric criticisms arising from their failure to specify correctly the institutional features of the labour market (such as multi-year contracts, deferred increments …
Wage Determination by Gender and Visible Minority Status
L. N. Christofides, R. Swidinsky, Wage Determination by Gender and Visible Minority Status: Evidence from the 1989 LMAS, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 34-51
The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language
Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with enhanced earnings because of its actual value in the workplace, or its value as a screen for ability. Previously available data did not indicate whether bilingualism was actually practiced. The 2001 Census reports, for the first time, the primary and secondary languages used at work. Conditioning on both language knowledge and language use determines the additional earnings that can be at…
The Interaction between Indexation, Contract Duration and Non-Contingent Wage Adjustment
A model of the elasticity of indexation, contract duration and non-contingent wage adjustment is estimated using Canadian wage agreements. Results suggest that the degree of indexation and contract duration are interdependent and are affected by their past values, labour market conditions and inflation uncertainty. The correlation between the industry product prices and the CPI affects the degree of indexation. Non-contingent wage adjustment depe…
Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour
Unemployment Insurance
The Impact of Controls on Wage Contract Duration
Incomes policies invariably arouse considerable opposition. It is claimed that they are costly to administer, that, by tinkering with relative prices, they riddle the economy with inefficiencies and that they politicise economic life. It is also argued that where controls do have an impact on wage rates and prices, a point which is by no means universally conceded, agents are driven to (costly) behaviour designed to neutralise effective wage and …
A Microeconometric Analysis of the Canadian Wage Determination Process
The objective of this paper is to analyse the Canadian wage determination process using micro-data derived from individual union wage contracts, signed during the 1966-1975 time period. Conventional wage studies based on aggregate time series are subject to a number of important econometric criticisms arising from their failure to specify correctly the institutional features of the labour market (such as multi-year contracts, deferred increments …
A Microeconometric Analysis of Spillovers within the Canadian Wage Determination Process
Louis N. Christofides, Robert Swidinsky, David A. Wilton, A Microeconometric Analysis of Spillovers within the Canadian Wage Determination Process, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 62, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 213-221
A Microeconometric Analysis of the Canadian Wage Determination Process
The objective of this paper is to analyse the Canadian wage determination process using micro-data derived from individual union wage contracts, signed during the 1966-1975 time period. Conventional wage studies based on aggregate time series are subject to a number of important econometric criticisms arising from their failure to specify correctly the institutional features of the labour market (such as multi-year contracts, deferred increments …
The Effect of Settlement Stage on Negotiated Wage Settlements in Canada
This paper analyzes the effect of the particular stage of wage settlement on the negotiated wage increase, using micro data on Canadian labor contracts between 1966 and 1975. The sample data base was divided into direct first-stage bargaining, mediation-conciliation, and work stoppage/arbitration, and structural wage equations were estimated for each set of data. The results indicate that as negotiations move from direct bargaining to work stoppa…
Wage Determination in the Aftermath of Controls
The Impact of Controls on Wage Contract Duration
Incomes policies invariably arouse considerable opposition. It is claimed that they are costly to administer, that, by tinkering with relative prices, they riddle the economy with inefficiencies and that they politicise economic life. It is also argued that where controls do have an impact on wage rates and prices, a point which is by no means universally conceded, agents are driven to (costly) behaviour designed to neutralise effective wage and …
Wage Adjustment in Contracts Containing Cost-of-Living Allowance Clauses
The Interaction between Indexation, Contract Duration and Non-Contingent Wage Adjustment
A model of the elasticity of indexation, contract duration and non-contingent wage adjustment is estimated using Canadian wage agreements. Results suggest that the degree of indexation and contract duration are interdependent and are affected by their past values, labour market conditions and inflation uncertainty. The correlation between the industry product prices and the CPI affects the degree of indexation. Non-contingent wage adjustment depe…
Employment Flows and Job Tenure in Canada
Data from Canada's 1986-87 Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS) are used to study the pattern of employment flows, and to construct various estimates of average job duration. A subsample of 58, 458 observed jobs are classified according to their start dates and their termination date, if any. Thus our sample consists of both completed and censored employment spells. In the case of terminations, data are available on the reason for employment endi…
Wage Determination by Gender and Visible Minority Status
L. N. Christofides, R. Swidinsky, Wage Determination by Gender and Visible Minority Status: Evidence from the 1989 LMAS, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 34-51
Unemployment Insurance
Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour
Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour
The Gender Wage Gap
The gender wage gap in paid employment was studied using data from the 1991 Survey of Household Expenditure and Income for Cyprus, a country which aspires to join the European Union. Selection from a sample which includes more than paid employees was taken into account. It was found that average weekly wages for women are about 60 percent of those for men. Approximately 60 percent of the observed gender gap can be explained by differences in aver…
Social assistance and labour supply
The longitudinal, 1988–89 LMAS makes it possible to study the interaction between social assistance and labour supply while allowing for substantial time dependence. Tobit equations for hours worked on and off social assistance, which allow for endogenous selection of social assistance status, are estimated by using FIML. Small, but statistically significant, effects for a social assistance benefit variable are obtained, particularly for females.…
Recent Two-Stage Sample Selection Procedures With an Application to the Gender Wage Gap
Recently developed two-stage estimation methods of sample selection models are used, in the context of data from the 1989 Labor Market Activity Survey, to examine labor supply decisions and wage outcomes for employed men and women. Recent hypothesis test procedures are used to test for no sample selection and to test for a parametric against a semiparametric selection-correction procedure. We conclude that selection is indeed an issue for the sam…
Nominal Wage Rigidity in Contract Data
Using wage agreements reached in the Canadian unionized sector during 1976–99, a period of high as well as exceptionally low inflation, we consider how histograms of wage adjustment changed as inflation reached the low levels of the 1990s. The histograms and parametric tests suggest that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity and significant spikes at zero. There is some evidence of modest menu‐cost effects. We examine whet…
Wage Rigidity in Canadian Collective Bargaining Agreements
The authors search information on the provisions of 10,947 wage contracts signed in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976 and 1999 for evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity (the disinclination of wages to fall, in nominal dollars, below their established level). Over the sample period, real wage reductions were common, but nominal wage reductions were rare. The probability of downward nominal wage rigidity increased substantially during…
The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language
Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with enhanced earnings because of its actual value in the workplace, or its value as a screen for ability. Previously available data did not indicate whether bilingualism was actually practiced. The 2001 Census reports, for the first time, the primary and secondary languages used at work. Conditioning on both language knowledge and language use determines the additional earnings that can be at…
Gender wage gaps, ‘sticky floors’ and ‘glass ceilings’ in Europe
Economics (19 obras) · Labour economics (16 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (14 obras) · Wage (13 obras) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 obras) · Econometrics (5 obras) · Demographic economics (4 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 obras) · Inflation (cosmology) (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras)