Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...

This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used by economists and psychologists to understand the...

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...

We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...

Labor inspection procedures in Brazil went through important changes in several dimensions from late 90s to mid 2000, improving the procedures efficiency. In the subsequent period formal employmentexpanded significantly. The aim of this paper is to identify whether the first fact influenced the...

This paper addresses the following question: how can we reconcile workers` rights and social protection with firms` competitiveness and productivity? In Latin America, there is an intense debate about the perverseness of the labor law (claimed to be harmful both to workers and to firms) and, in...

In diesem Papier ist der zweite Experten-Workshop zum Forschungsprojekt Anpassungs- und Modernisierungsprozesse im System arbeitsweltbezogener Präventions-akteure* dokumentiert, der von der WZB-Arbeitsgruppe Public Health in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ministerium für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit und...

While earlier literature proposed a monotonic relationship between the skill level (as measured by educational attainment) and employment prospects, recent literature suggests that this relationship has changed and that it is now necessary to distinguish between different kinds of skills and...