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biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding …
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Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of...
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …
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This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work limitation scale. A dynamic labour force participation model is used to capture the feedback effect of past participation on current participation. The results suggest that net of...
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This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitation on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey are used to investigate this relationship. A two-equation...
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We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …
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the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure …
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model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
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This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior. Then we derive testable conditions for reduced...
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We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
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