for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity … gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …

This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 …

Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the … heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health shocks on labour supply is theoretically modelled by adopting the Grossman (1972 … locus of control, health shocks and labour market outcomes is that internals have a smaller probability of leaving the …

Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the … heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health shocks on labour supply is theoretically modelled by adopting the Grossman (1972 … locus of control, health shocks and labour market outcomes is that internals have a smaller probability of leaving the …

young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model …

Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …

-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high … in Germany compared to other countries. Furthermore, pooled regression results show that most recent wages and personal …

disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of the epidemiological literature on health effects and the eco-nomic literature on …

This paper provides evidence for the effects of health shocks measured by any negative change in self-assessed health … Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-HSE (RLMS-HSE) for 2000–2018. We find that adverse health shocks are associated with a reduction in … consequences of health shocks are more drastic. Severe health shocks that are measured as a drop in SAH by two or more levels are …