discussion of the unintended consequences of rising wages in the child care work sector. To address this gap in the debate, the … the consumption of formal child care hours of middle- and high-income households in eastern Germany correlates negatively … with child care work wages, indicating price elasticity. …

as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and selff-employment, as well as reservation … wages and satisfaction. We also discuss diffculties in the implementation of the minimum wage and the measurement of its … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …

income seems also of minor importance, even though the estimated coefficients have the expected signs implied by substitution … and income effects. The overall results suggest that unfair wage perceptions, which are related to stress, negatively …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …

foreign countries. -- globalization ; offshoring ; labor income risk ; wages …This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number … variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that directly connects labor income risk and offshoring trends in a panel …

effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married … and cohabiting women make different economic decisions and respond differently to changes in their partners' wages. In … further, an increase in partner's wages results in a negative and significant effect on married women's work hours. The …