central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

to assess the impact of service-linked severance benefits on age-specific employment levels. The model permits design of …

urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved … corrections are necessary. Good health leads to higher wages for men, while there appears to be no significant effect for women … (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection …

, 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 …

stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …

equitable and employment-generating social policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in …