We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a … significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …

long lasting positive effect on the employment participation and productivity of people with disabilities. …During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western …. Continuing health and productivity improvements in the general population are leaving people with disabilities behind, unable to …

workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis … presented the focus is mainly on sectoral output and employment effects where the key sectors are the automotive sector …

because of changes in family structure and in the labor market, and that these changes had an important gender dimension … women with children entering the labor force. Many of these mothers, new entrants to the labor force, were unable or … unwilling to find full-time work in the high-paying formal sector, and ended up unemployed or working part-time as self …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …