, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in … Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older … for the oldest old. This decline is primarily attributable to low levels of perceived health. Once cohort effects are also …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers’ health. In particular, we show …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …