Der Fehlzeiten-Report, der jährlich als Buch erscheint, informiert umfassend über die Struktur und Entwicklung des Krankenstandes der Beschäftigten in der deutschen Wirtschaft und analysiert dabei detailliert einzelne Branchen. Der aktuelle Fehlzeiten-Report widmet sich dem Thema...

In developed countries, women are expected to live about 4-5 years longer than men. In this paper we develop a novel approach in order to gauge to what extent gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and health behavior. For that purpose we set up a...

The anticipation of bad future events reduces currently experienced happiness and it may through this channel elicit detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological aging into a life-cycle model, calibrate it with...

The anticipation of bad future events reduces currently experienced happiness and it may through this channel elicit detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological aging into a life-cycle model, calibrate it with...