In the debate on in-work benefits in Germany it is often overlooked that such subsidies may only be effective if basic …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

, 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 …