workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates …

climate of employment relations and union effects on employment growth. …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

’s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of …

at educational attainment and labour market outcomes. When looking at early wages, we find that parental background …

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …

it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on employment growth and financial performance are largely confined to …