The implications of on-the-job search and learning-by-doing of young workers are studied in a search-matching model. The labor market is segmented in two submarkets: that of beginning workers earning minimum wage, and that of experienced workers offering higher wages. After a long enough employment spell, beginners can search for a better paid job in the experienced submarket. Unemployment bene...

This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from childhood to adulthood through early marriage and childbearing. Employment creates a period of transit...

In turn, healthcare workers may transmit the virus to patients in their care1,6-11 including those who are at high-risk of developing serious complications from influenza, such as the elderly, young children and those with chronic underlying medical conditions. In addition, the tendency of a significant percentage of healthcare workers to continue working despite being ill with influenza exacer...

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behavior of finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax rates distort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that of young workers. This finding provides an explanation of the observed fall of participation rates of elder ...

Making use of performance data for baseball players, this article provides empirical evidence in support of Lazear’s (1998) theoretical predictions that (1) risky workers will earn a premium for their upside potential, (2) this risk premium will be higher the longer a worker’s work life, and (3) firms must enjoy some comparative advantage in the labor market to be willing to pay a premium to ri...

possible interactions between xenobiotics and their effect on human health has remained fragmentary. Industrial workers and the general population, overexposed to lead (Pb) in the work environment or through polluted biosphere, may also be exposed to other elements, both essential and nonessential. Zielhuis et al.1) reported increased blood manganese (Mn) levels with increased blood Pb in young...