males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …

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 …

employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment underline its relevance. We discuss the measurement of wage … inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … wage rates and the role of institutions is evaluated, from the early 1980s to the recent literature on job polarization and …

We introduce a structural model which jointly estimates the full-time wage premium and female labor supply, using the …), caused by the coexistence of both full- and part-time wage rates, and makes wages fully endogenous to the labor supply choice … small full-time wage premium. Our estimates for labor supply elasticities lie within the ranges reported in previous …

, job mobility, the minimum wage, industrial composition and the public/private sector dichotomy. The analysis covers the …

I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the … part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage …-level wage losses contribute to the wage penalty to an equal degree. Counterfactual simulations demonstrate that financial …

. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using … importantly, we shed light on the alcohol-income puzzle by analyzing, for the first time, the association between beverage …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

intermittency experience, and we illustrate the importance of firm dynamics in the determination of a woman's wage …