ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers may move between two occupational sectors that require cognitive …

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 …

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 …

run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …

receive high compensation for their education and experience. Less educated workers allocate to the informal sector. While … self-employment reveals some characteristics of a sector of dynamic entrepreneurship, the characteristics of the informal …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made … determinants of worker satisfaction with the enforcement of the law, the propensity of workers to have a labor contract, workers … impact on manufacturing employment growth, this has not led to an overall increase in aggregate unemployment or prevented the …

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 …