Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this … question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test … to measure changes in the inmates' expectations about the length of their sentences, and find that suicide rates tend to …

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

assimilation into normal employment and the extent to which job matches are inefficient in the sense that the pay in a job is below …

throughout the wage distribution. For the different demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average … impacts in the lower part of their wage distribution, while Whites likely experience larger impacts in the upper part of their …

males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …