work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment … public pension system. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, the fiscal consequences of the 6.4 year increase in age 65 …

This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity … alcohol has, at most, a minor impact on drunk driving and mortality at age 16 and 18 years. This study thus provides fresh …

continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women …

go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …

explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …

reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …

We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a … do not. This has consequences also for inference about the happiness effect of employment. We find that employment per se …