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 …

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel … height effects on wages are curvilinear. During the considered period from 1985 to 2004 we observe a slightly nonlinear … falling trend. After controlling for time effects a nonlinear relationship between individual height and wages remains with a …

associated with higher job mobility. At firm level, there seems to be a trade-off between wages and job stability: High …-wage firms tend to be low-tenure firms, which suggests that low job stability may be compensated by higher wages. High …

rates and the share of temporary contracts is established. The bargaining hypothesis that job security and wages are … hypothesis is contrasted with Rosen's theory of equalising differences where security and wages are substitutes. The empirical … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …