We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the … continually employed. Hence, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in …

-assessed health. Methods: We use survey data covering 884 Finnish trade union members in 2009. We estimate logit models. All models … workers with all health levels. The point estimates reveal that working-time match decreases the prevalence of sickness … absence by 7% and presenteeism by 8%. However, the estimates that differentiate by a respondent’s health show that this …

Finland over the period 1993-2005. The data on individuals’ health that we are using originates from Health Behaviour and … Health among the Finnish Population conducted by the National Public Health Institute. The results show that alcohol …

The paper examines the role of physical capacity in the determination of the height premium by using the “Health 2000 …

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual … microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results … negatively related to the probability of good physical health and no disability retirement. For men, relative income inequality …