While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on earnings for males. However, applying fixed-effects estimation, this effect is …This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and … found to be inverted for men aged 25 to 35 years compared to their non-smoking counterparts. That is, controlling for …

Smoking is associated with high economic costs, because it increases the risk and incidence of several illnesses. A … promising instrument to reduce these costs is to decrease tobacco consumption by developing target group-oriented non-smoking … waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …

positive wage effect of about the same size. The wages of females are not affected by smoking and drinking. …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … selectivity. We find that for both smoking decisions true state dependence is in general much smaller when unobserved individual …

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio …-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their … smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with …

smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 were used to examine the effect of unemployment on smoking probability and vice versa (65 …

retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of …

In this paper, we consider how the retirement age as well as a tax financed pension system ought to respond to a change … perfect control over the individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard … deviation of life-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and vice versa, if the preferences for 'the number …