suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works … effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of young adults as well as on their … hourly wage rates. The richness of the data set allows us to implement several strategies to control for unobserved …

males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …

indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ‘penalty …’ for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …

In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly … important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of … in HRT use. Our results indicate substantial benefits of HRT use to the short-term employment of middle-aged women. …

In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances … whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method. We find evidence of positive selection … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower …