-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 …

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 …

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 …