Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating environmental conditions. Supply of health care is overwhelmingly provided … problems, the government has launched a number of reforms. New insurance schemes have been rolled out both in rural and urban …

incentives for teachers. Performance of public services devoted to health and transports has been mixed. Public health services …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …

lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also … to be overrepresented among outsiders in the labour market and, as such, highly sensitive to the difference in employment …

, the paper discusses possibilities for international insurance as well as shock-spreading and risk-mitigating policies …

This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to … insurance sector. Despite incomplete information on some areas that turned out to be important in the context of the recent …-oriented regulatory policies and competition in banking and insurance.<P>Régulation prudentielle et concurrence sur les marchés financiers …

. Three channels of influence are explored in this paper: shrinking insurance coverage stemming from the perception of greater …

well as the health benefits arising from the reduction in local air pollution. The shadow price of pollution is calculated … indirectly through its impact on life expectancy. Taking into account the health benefits of mitigation policies significantly …

with previous studies of subjective wellbeing, show that, apart from income, the state of health, not being unemployed, and … progress with wellbeing in general, or what seems to matter for wellbeing—health, being employed and social contacts-- beyond …