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 …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …

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 …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …

health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …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 …

The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main … finding is that women perceive their wage more often as fair if controls for hourly wage rates, individual and job …-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This …

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data to estimate individual fixed effects for men and women. Moving from an entirely male to …

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data to estimate individual fixed effects for men and women. Moving from an entirely male to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

show that health is a key determinant of the retirement hazard for both men and women in Britain and Germany. The size of …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 …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …