Essays in Labor Economics

Abstract

In three essays covering three dimensions of the working lives of employees I aim to contribute to the study of labor economics. While the first chapter looks at migration decisions as part of an optimal work-location plan over the life cycle, the second chapter is concerned with decisions about time allocation between market work and childcare in an effort of employees to combine working and family life. The third chapter differs from the first two chapters in that it focusses on behavioral aspects of how agents interact in the labor market when the performances of employees are evaluated by employers or other employees, who cannot perfectly observe individual performances and whose evaluations cannot necessarily be explained through standard economic theory.