This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer–employee data set for Germany, we …

In this paper, a correspondence testing experiment is conducted to examine sexual orientation discrimination against … lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a … registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in … Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or … well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we … find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the …

rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 … introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …

This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the … rationing by examining whether the reservation wages of employed unskilled workers in states where the 1990-1991 federal minimum …

recent OECD country experiences with private health insurance, care for children and the elderly, and private pension …) Informational asymmetries (how good is this childcare which I cannot personally monitor, or this health care package which I am not …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …