Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …

central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

general emphasis in the health economics literature on sample selection instead of insurance endogeneity therefore seems … demand estimation. Our semiparametic approach models expenditures simultaneously with the choice of insurance plan and the … that the recent Medicaid expansions may not help all children attain good health. The results are sensitive to assumptions …

to assess the impact of service-linked severance benefits on age-specific employment levels. The model permits design of …

urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …