insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

workers who are typically less attached to the labor market. -- health ; employment ; income …This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …

unemployment insurance and the compensated labor supply elasticity. Since the Austrian labor market is characterized by an … unusually high share of seasonal employment, our data provides the ideal setting in which to empirically test this model. We use … employment based on observed regularities in employment patterns. We find that employers pay on average a positive wage …

incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …

. The value of this state is therefore a fundamental determinant of wages and, in turn, labor supply and job creation. We … measure the effect of changes in the value of nonemployment on wages in existing jobs and among job switchers. Our quasi …-experimental variation in nonemployment values arises from four large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We …