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data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multidimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …’ participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …
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Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours … on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and poorer reported health, the effects are small. Also small are …
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and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …
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The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers’ health. In particular, we show …
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We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to … persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the … first six waves of the HILDA survey to estimate the joint effect of health status and health shocks on working hours using a …
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This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …
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impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel … regarding the relationship between the latent variable ‘health’ and its evaluation into observable QALY’s. Second, we allow the …
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This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
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