, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction … with work, financial situation, health, family life, friends, and life in general. We find almost no statistically …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …

absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … negative effects on health outcomes or perceived liquidity constraints. -- Sickness pay ; absenteeism ; health expenditure …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … in the literature. The analysis emphasises the importance to analyse health related behaviour in a dynamic life cycle …

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data … from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

the group of workers with apprenticeship training that is driving the low returns to labour market experience, while wages …

Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …