receive high compensation for their education and experience. Less educated workers allocate to the informal sector. While …

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short … run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

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 …

This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the … existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization … show that a worker's effort has a positive effect on the effort of co-workers if they are complements in production, and a …

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 …

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 …

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

We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same … cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption … and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate more than workers. Cooperation increases in both subject pools …