suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works … effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of young adults as well as on their … hourly wage rates. The richness of the data set allows us to implement several strategies to control for unobserved …

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E … aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …

encompass between-job wage movements linked to promotions or demotions while job spells don't. Using a 1% sample of the British … any positive effects of job-specific human capital on wage growth within jobs are outweighed by the effects of job changes … within firms. -- job spells ; employer spells ; wage-tenure profiles …

This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases …

This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is … four different measures of success as self-employed: income from self-employment, number of employees, turnover of the firm … performed well as employees are also more successful as self-employed. -- self-employment ; occupational choice ; occupational …

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …-level productivity exceeds their contribution to the wage bill. On the methodological side, we note that failure to account for the …