. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible … incidence of cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …

employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation … and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If workers are risk neutral, we prove that working hours and welfare are … invariant to the minimum wage rate. If workers are risk averse and imprudent (which is the empirically likely case), then …

Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i ….e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high …-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without …

This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact with each other. In contrast to the … existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization … show that a worker's effort has a positive effect on the effort of co-workers if they are complements in production, and a …