This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …

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 …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct …. We find that ≈10% of the variance in occupational wages can be attributed to genetic similarities between individuals who … for occupational wages, each with a tiny effect size (R 2<0.04%). An aggregated genetic score constructed from these GWAS …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely to retire for health reasons(affordability proposition), and (ii) that health …

wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …

relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and … well. Allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error, we findthat reservation wages are 25% lower than they …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …