this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …

, employment and productivity) downsizing. Unemployment insurance and cash transfers yield limited wage loss replacement (6 percent … the universe of cash transfer, unemployment insurance, and training beneficiaries. Negative employment effects take over a … decade to dissipate fully, wage effects persist, and firm restructuring involves occupational adjustment, increasing …

gainful employment. Our findings indicate that laws regulating health and safety conditions and restricting women’s night work … increased the likelihood of female employment by about 4% to 8%, accounting for about 10% to 20% from the total increase during … the largest increase in the likelihood of employment. We also document that native, higher-class and literate women were …

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …

relatively strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that …We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with …

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …