This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain … significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work … externality that is internalized in Europe through laws on the minimum amount of vacation time (and maximum hours of work …

. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …

transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality …

insurance and change in work time appear to have increased their subjective well-being, enabling them to spend time on …

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The …