The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid … observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled workers. The direct effect of increased import competition on relative … employment seems to be small, except for the case of consumer electronics. Apparently, adjustment strategies induced by …

that reassessed the health and working capacity of a large share of beneficiaries. Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the … reassessment, we estimate employment responses to loss or reduction of benefits. We find that among those who left disability … insurance due to the reform 58% were employed in the primary labor market, 6% participated in public works and 36% were out of …

The aim of the study is to quantify climate induced health risks for Germany. Based on high resolution climate … intensity increases overall but more in the south. Referring to empirical studies on heat induced health effects we estimate an …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …

monetary outcomes. The goal of our experiment is to test whether these violations also affect the evaluation of health states … behaviour, we can conclude that previously reported violations do not seem to bias health utility measurement. -- Transitivity … ; health utility ; errors …

-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest … accumulation. -- Orphans ; health ; education ; timing of parental death ; child development ; Tanzania …

This paper examines the long-run effect of FDI on health in developed countries. Using panel cointegration techniques …, we find a significant and negative long-run effect. -- FDI ; health ; panel cointegration …

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables … statistically significant positive impact on population health. Also, there is some evidence that inequality is endogenous in the …

The aim of the study is to quantify climate induced health risks for Germany. Based on high resolution climate … intensity increases overall but more in the south. Referring to empirical studies on heat induced health effects we estimate an …

This paper examines the role of the health gradient the positive correlation between household income and health in …-specific health gradients and find their slope increases with age, but declines among retired workers. We then estimate a variety of … parametric and semi-parametric duration models and find that workers’ position relative to the agegroup-specific health gradient …