The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …

while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …

' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external … locus of control for both men and women. …

The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically … lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …