This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved … corrections are necessary. Good health leads to higher wages for men, while there appears to be no significant effect for women … (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection …

stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

equitable and employment-generating social policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in …

This paper examines gender equality in three important aspects including education, health care and employment in … more likely than men in using outpatient and inpatient health care services. However, for people above 14 years old, men … employment, and their wage is lower than men’s wage. Women have to do more housework than men even after the working hours for …

wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor … sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages …

Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries both from a national and a … regional perspective. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period with special … regular employment, and shifting in favour of tertiary sector jobs – the pace decelerating in the second half of the study …

countries, namely; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, concludes that on return, the employment status of REMs … were in general worse off than in their host country with high share of casualisation, self employment and unemployment in … the crisis year and a decline in their average monthly earnings. The analysis suggests that those who found employment on …