[...]This paper is an interim report on continuingwork that we began in 1988. Our earlier research on thecauses of wage …

andexplain the dramatic changes in the wage distributionthat occurred during the 1980s (see also Katz andMurphy 1992 …). Practically every income group faced adecline in real wages during the 1980s. However, workersat the 33rd percentile experienced a … 14 percent drop in thereal wage, workers at the 66th percentile experienced onlya 6 percent drop, and workers in the …

now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information …

Wage inequality for males in theUnited States increased dramaticallyduring the 1980s. Between 1979 and1990, the weekly … than16 percent. As a result, the wage premium for collegegraduates increased from 42 percentage points in 1979 to71 … grew dramatically between 1979 and1990. Wages for men at the top end of the wage distributiongrew by 18 percent relative to …

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant firm-specific wage components and use them as instruments … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …