on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German … finding is that workers have larger probabilities to make suggestions and to be promoted after they have received formal …

In 2007, the State of Arizona passed the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) which required all employers to verify the …

Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

"Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find … that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …

employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation … and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If workers are risk neutral, we prove that working hours and welfare are … invariant to the minimum wage rate. If workers are risk averse and imprudent (which is the empirically likely case), then …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible … incidence ofcardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain …

. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …