This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...

Die Reinigungskräfte sind eine besonders gefährdete Arbeitnehmergruppe, die vor Ausbeutung wenig gefeit ist. Gerade dort, wo gering Qualifizierte und Personen mit Migrationshintergrund arbeiten, kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass Sozialstandards unterlaufen werden, da sich diese Gruppe ihrer...

Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that...

In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and all indoor workplaces. Despite the intense public debate, research on the impact of smoking regulation on health, particularly within the...