The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …

-cycle insurance impact is much smaller. At the mean, a positive hours shock of one standard deviation raises life-time income by 10 …

conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …

entrance degree but no further professional qualification as well as for those who were in the upper percentiles of the income …

wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self …

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique … (almost 20 percent of them being restarters), a decision that pays for the majority of individuals in terms of income …