study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose … to model poor health and non-employment as interrelated risks determined within a dynamic structure conditional on a set … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment …

high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment the composition of the employed population will have a considerable … 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 … purely to changes in employment …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … husbandsﾒ job losses have significant negative effects on infant health. They reduce birth weights by approximately four and a …

investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …'s health, whilst maternal job loss has no significant effect. The rationale behind the findings is that the income loss …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are … mainly driven by males and individuals with bad initial health conditions and are largest for males with poor health. In …

's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and …

at reducing the number of claims and targeting benefits more closely to those with the greatest health need. At the same … framework to explore the relative importance of health status, benefit generosity and local labour market conditions for … line with older evidence, while health status is clearly important, geographic variation in labour market conditions and …