This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of … interruptions reduce the wage rates of both men and women. Moreover, the wage cuts resulting from unemployment, parental leave and …

In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full …-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in … Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in …

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a … simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage … linear spline functions. Second, we detect di¤erent wage-hours profiles for specific groups of individuals. Despite these di …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …

are more likely to be depressed and more often suffer from health problems especially in rural areas. …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …