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Chris Riddell

- Verified email at uwaterloo.ca - Cited by 788

Christopher Riddell

- Verified email at fsw.leidenuniv.nl - Cited by 31

Disability policy and the labor market: evidence from a natural experiment in Canada, 1998–2006

M Campolieti, C Riddell - Journal of Public Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effect of changes in two key parameters in disability policy: a) the
earnings that disability insurance beneficiaries are allowed to earn without losing their …

Multinationals' compliance with employment law: An empirical assessment using administrative data from Ontario, 2004 to 2015

D Pohler, C Riddell - ILR Review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study contributes new evidence to the literature on multinational corporation (MNC)
behavior by exploring three related questions: 1) Do MNCs comply with local employment laws …

Union certification success under voting versus card-check procedures: Evidence from British Columbia, 1978–1998

C Riddell - ILR Review, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
The author estimates the impact of compulsory election laws on certification success using
data on over 6,500 private sector certifications from British Columbia over the years 1978–98. …

Labor law reform and the role of delay in union organizing: Empirical evidence from Canada

M Campolieti, C Riddell, S Slinn - ILR Review, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the determinants and consequences of delay in the union certification
process using data from certification applications and unfair labor practice complaints (ULPs…

Performance pay and earnings: Evidence from personnel records

T Pekkarinen, C Riddell - Ilr Review, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the earnings effects of performance pay using linked employee-employer
panel data from Finland's metal industry for 1990–2000. The authors estimate the effects …

Welfare checks, drug consumption, and health: evidence from Vancouver injection drug users

C Riddell, R Riddell - Journal of Human Resources, 2006 - jhr.uwpress.org
This paper investigates the link between welfare payments and drug use among injection
drug users. We find an increase in the likelihood of an overdose in the days following check …

Compensation policy and quit rates: A multilevel approach using benchmarking data

C Riddell - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Using unique linked employee–employer benchmarking data, the paper estimates the
impact of compensation policy on quit rates using multilevel models. The analysis examines …

Minimum wage impacts from a prespecified research design: Canada 1981–1997

…, M Gunderson, C Riddell - Industrial Relations: A …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Neumark (2001 ) used the novel methodology of a prespecified research design to estimate
the employment effect of minimum wage changes. We conducted our analysis in the “spirit” …

Cognitive enhancement and coping in an Australian university student sample

C Riddell, C Jensen, O Carter - Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2018 - Springer
Cognitive enhancement (CE) agents are those purported to improve or augment aspects of
cognition such as working memory, creativity, and executive function in healthy individuals. …

The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies: Experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project

C Riddell, WC Riddell - Journal of Public Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time
employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project (‘…