This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the … health surveys, complemented by administrative data (morbidity rates of the employed and unemployed) and data from the …

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no … significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms. …