employer-provided health insurance and employer payments for FICA taxes has contributed to the growth in observed and actual … for men working full-time and year round. She finds that the decreased availability of jobs with health benefits has had a … substantially more unequal since 1979 than the traditional measure based on wages alone indicates. …

Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …

An analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of …

facts concerning the variability of unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate, the distribution of net employment growth … and the comovement of hours and employment growth at the establishment level. A search model with frictions in hiring and … response of hours and wages to shocks. We specify and estimate the parameters of the search model using simulated method of …

This study will begin by reviewing why governments have a role in providing ,health care for their citizens. The …

The share of health-care spending in GDP has been rising rapidly in the United States and other advanced industrial … that improve the quality of life and extend its duration. ; A potential flipside to rising health-care costs, however, is … declining health-care coverage. As documented in a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau (DeNavas-Walt et al. 2006), the …

Health care reform has been the primary focus of policymakers for much of the past year, culminating with the Patient … the act has highlighted the importance of innovative, high-quality research on health and health care policy. …

In certain situations, Americans who become chronically ill have to pay higher rates to continue their health insurance … next insurance policy will cost considerably more than their current one. …

central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …