Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …

Workers in rural areas earn lower wages than nonrural workers and previous evidence has attributed these differences to … the broader group of rural workers. While there is extensive evidence on both the structure of wages and the source of …. Second, it provides new evidence of the structure of wages faced by American Indians, a group typically ignored in empirical …