This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.

Understanding the factors that affect how one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement isimportant both to the individual and to the policy maker. This volume containsseven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labormarket transitions....

Schon in zehn Jahren werden dem Arbeitsmarkt fünf Millionen oder gar mehr Arbeitskräfte fehlen. Parallel wird unsere Gesellschaft deutlich altern. Vor welchen Aufgaben stehen Unternehmen und Beschäftigte, Bildungs-, Familien- und Zuwanderungspolitik? Müssen gesellschaftliche Solidarität und...

Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...

The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...