Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … of euros could be saved by aligning private and public health insurance …

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling … light on this discussion by analyzing the health effects of a reform in Germany where total years of schooling for students … health effects for females while they are still in school. However, after graduation, females even seem to benefit from …

Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses about health inequality. First, educational gaps in health … test both hypotheses in the German context, which contrasts sharply with the U.S. in the structural forces shaping health … inequality. We consider individual and contextual influences on the core association between education and health, and assess …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children’s human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children’s willingness to …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50 , but its relationship with Eastern German women …’s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth …

The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer … these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may therefore lead to a decline of avoidable illnesses and related … health care costs. In this context, we use German micro data to identify determinants of smoking, drinking and obesity. Our …

Germany, the daycare expansion was positively associated with an increase in maternal satisfaction with family life, health …