This paper estimates the labor supply elasticity of wage workers in Indonesia. I exploit a historical dataset on natural disasters to isolate the plausibly-exogenous variation in wage and productivity in the local labor market. I find more inelastic labor supply among female wage workers: men...

Hotter years are associated with lower economic output in developing countries. We show that the effect of temperature on labor is an important part of the explanation. Using microdata from selected firms in India, we estimate reduced worker productivity and increased absenteeism on hot days....

We study the effects of temperature on occupational health using administrative data on Swiss occupational accidents from 1996 to 2019. Our results imply that on hot days (Tmax ≥ 30 degrees Celsius) the number of occupational accidents increases by 7.4% and on ice days (Tmax 0 degrees...