We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

wages for part-time and full-time employment that depend also on some inherent skill ‘endowment’ and labour market …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macroeconomic conditions during childhood on mortality at all ages …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health …, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …