headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

by an intriguing puzzle - the large gap between the theory and empirical work. While the hypothesis that growing labor … consistent evidence in support of this theory. The primary contribution of this chapter is to document how recent research … - primarily since the late 1990s - makes substantial progress in resolving this disconnect between the theory and empirics. To …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … association diminishes for the employment models for males and females. For the wage models, controlling for unobserved …

for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …

correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …. Co-op wages are about 14 percent lower on average and they are more volatile (and employment less volatile) than those in …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …