Forthcoming in 'Health Economics'.<P> The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wage workers; however …, the cause of this health difference is largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study …-employment on health (benefit effect), or a health-related selection of individuals into self-employment (barrier effect). Our main …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2 …(3), 1-27.<P> Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however …

likely to be strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are …. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected … by endogenous, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a …