In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … and physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects …

effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms …We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular … significant reduction in wages as materials offshoring increases, while permanent workers' wages are unaffected or even tend to …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different …

incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages … the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …