whose employment patterns are or were hardly affected by the current (early) retirement incentives. Using these "pure health … benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different …

those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this … paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement …

We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 … percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry …

differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …

rent sharing. It lowers outsourcing, while moderately shifting employment to skilled labor. Shared governance has no clear …

large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit …. The value of nonemployment is therefore a key determinant of wages. We measure the wage effect of changes in the value of … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through work-sharing, and is being emulated in the …

This paper assesses the impact of the post WWII baby boom on relative wages, when this baby boom cohort becomes the …/sex groupings. Using these estimates, we simulate relative wages in the year 2020 assuming the age/sex composition of the workforce … behaves according to projections. The results are used to examine the baby boom's potential impact on wages of older, prime …