, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …

outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and …

human capital factors such as education, job skills, and health are important determinants of labor market participation and …

employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … association diminishes for the employment models for males and females. For the wage models, controlling for unobserved …

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 … possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the benefit replacement ratio, employment protection and the collective …