history of disability or major chronic health condition at baseline. A latent variable structural equation model is used to … characteristics, in determining the individual’s disability state and health service utilisation five years later. We find that … baseline health affects future health service utilisation very strongly, via functional disability as a mediating outcome. Our …

In this study, we study disability among older people (aged 60 or older) using the 2016 Viet Nam National Disability … remarkably higher than the disability rate identified by local authorities. Disability is found to be more prevalent in older … people and women. There is a strong and negative association between education and disability, as well as between wealth and …

In this paper we test a new empirical relationship between wage and inflation. We introduce the concept of a cumulative … wage gap, meaning the cumulative gap between the current wage and a maximum peak wage value in the past. In a crisis … target until the cumulative real wage gap closes, and that it increases above its target when the cumulative real wage gap …

, which both screen workers based on unobservable characteristics and also provide them with wage setting power. Labor market … institutions confer significant wage premia to native workers (3.9, 1.6, and 2.7 log points for licensing, certification, and … unionization respectively), due to screening and wage setting power. Wage premia are significantly larger for licensed and …

(ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage penalty associated with overeducation. When interacting educational … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …

Various studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of …, the development of wage gap between formal and informal employment has not been examined. In our paper, we carry this … analysis for Turkey and estimate the wage gap between formal and informal sector workers by utilizing the Household Labor Force …

graduates from international programmmes obtain a wage premium of 2.3% starting from the 1st year after graduation, ceteris … paribus. The wage premium keeps increasing by about 1% every year. We investigate the mechanisms through which the wage … premium operates. The wage premia can neither be explained by wage increase via cross-firm mobility, nor by faster upward …

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas …, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed … violations by subcontractor firms. Empirical analysis is based on a firm-level matched dataset of wage and hour violations and …

This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched … that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin, suffer a wage penalty compared to their well-matched former … classmates. However, the magnitude of this wage penalty is found to vary considerably depending on workers' origin. In addition …