We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …

related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

wages given up as an employee. Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just a … that it is not only the location of an income distribution that matters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …

effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead them to economic success. We employ recent data from the German … for Germans who are in the upper end of the income distribution. “Rich” self-employed Germans enjoy a wage premium …

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … for actual wages. While we do find quantitatively small yet statistically significant effects in our naïve least squares … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …