We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain …. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

This paper takes advantage of 2006 Census data, the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the Canadian Community Health … Survey (CCHS) to highlight some basic demographic trends among Older Aboriginal Peoples, their health status and their use of … health services in the first part of this paper. In the second part of the paper, we connect the findings to what has been …

There is a strong positive relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, but identifying the direction of … Dynamics and the National Population Health Survey, to study the link from SES to health. For people aged 50 and older who are … initially in good health we examine whether changes in health status over the next two to four years are related to prior SES …

conditions affect individual’s health. Five-year cumulative measures of these job characteristics are used to reflect findings in … the physiologic literature that cumulative exposure is most relevant for the impact of hazards and stresses on health … experience declines in their health, although this effect varies by demographic group. For example, for non-white men, a one …

There is a strong positive relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, but identifying the direction of … Dynamics and the National Population Health Survey, to study the link from SES to health. For people aged 50 and older who are … initially in good health we examine whether changes in health status over the next two to four years are related to prior SES …

This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost … phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory …. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy …

> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …