account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …

This paper examines the long-run effect of FDI on health in developed countries. Using panel cointegration techniques …

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables … statistically significant positive impact on population health. Also, there is some evidence that inequality is endogenous in the …

analyze economic issues by considering the implications of allowing for health state dependence in the utility function. Our … concavity than log utility. We also find that controlling for health dependence generally reduces these estimates. Our results … also suggest that the marginal utility of income increases when health deteriorates. …

The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …

system in the last decades is described, its impact on employment and growth is studied and proposals for the reform of the …

-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest …

developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …

on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …