exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …

pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that … idiosyncratic risk increases during contractions in the labour market. Furthermore, we find evidence of insurance, both at the … household level and in the form of public insurance. However, private and public insurance mechanisms against an increase in …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

negative effects on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. However, we provide suggestive evidence that young workers … or the presence of envelope wages appear to be associated with lower job losses. Taken together, our findings imply an … employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of -0.021, and an own-wage elasticity of -0.033, suggesting that wage …

We conduct a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect … equilibrium for long-term care insurance using the framework developped by Einav et al. (2010). We investigate in turn causes for … the low observed take-up of long-term care insurance in Canada despite substantial residual out-of-pocket financial risk …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …