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

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 …

on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the …

, 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 …

health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a "purged" health measure similar to …Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between …

OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … employment prospects increase with weight, albeit with diminishing returns. However, underweight men in blue-collar jobs earn …

and around the time that temporary disability insurance benefits are exhausted for women – is consistent with causal … effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to … life and possibly also on wages. …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …

-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach … than the minimum wage. The Campaign led to the largest increases in the wages of women, younger workers and less …