of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …

participation, we provide inverse probability weighting and ordinary least squares estimates of the employment and earnings effects … market success. On average, there are only small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings even four years after …

unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages …

a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is …