The costs of mental ill-health for individuals, employers and society at large are enormous. Mental illness is … Health and Work) and nine country reports, this final synthesis report summarizes the findings from the participating …

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health … the potential for economic development throughout the country. The mapping of health infrastructure shows that border …. The report identifies several regions in which closer co-operation could favour the establishment of cross-border health …