Influenza imposes substantial costs worldwide in terms of human lives and productivity losses. Vaccination could be a … cost-effective way to reduce these costs for firms and public health institutions, but low take-up rates, particularly of … manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to …

This paper presents an overlapping generations model where agents face labor-income and health risks in order to … quantify the macroeconomic and welfare consequences of reform options for the German health insurance system. In addition to … labor supply, consumption and savings, households also choose health expenditures in order to improve the health status and …

associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …

In the literature, trade liberalization increases industry productivity through two channels. First, firms increase … productivity due to better and wider choice of inputs. In addition, at least theoretically, the mechanism of selection eliminates … the least productive firms from the industry. To disentangle the sources of industry productivity increase, we apply the …

correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness … distinctly higher level of productivity across all types of location. In addition, the productivity level of firms with …

This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using …'s productivity slightly increases when they are discriminated against whereas productivity slightly decreases for women and people of …

The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European …