Showing 1 - 3 of 3
This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005811389
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers …, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to … the dynamic patterns of employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545498
crisis on labor market outcomes. Aggregate employment has remained remarkably robust through the crisis although there has … been significant switching within sectors. The drama of the crisis lies not in aggregate employment but in real hourly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545531