This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

to young workers. Findings further indicate that average hourly wages within firms increase significantly and …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …

, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …