Influenza imposes substantial costs worldwide in terms of human lives and productivity losses. Vaccination could be a … cost-effective way to reduce these costs for firms and public health institutions, but low take-up rates, particularly of … manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to …

This paper presents an overlapping generations model where agents face labor-income and health risks in order to … quantify the macroeconomic and welfare consequences of reform options for the German health insurance system. In addition to … labor supply, consumption and savings, households also choose health expenditures in order to improve the health status and …

associated with higher productivity levels. In this context, this paper explores the links between urban spatial structure and …

This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using …'s productivity slightly increases when they are discriminated against whereas productivity slightly decreases for women and people of …

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity …

This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration … the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory … of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process of productivity growth on the on the foundations of the theory of …