A structural dynamic programming model is applied for modeling labour market transitions among older age workers in Norway in 1992-2003. Special attention is given to early retirement pensiion and disability pension as two major exit routes from the labour force. Health status is represented by...

This discussion paper led to chapter <A href="https://books.google.nl/books?id=9TKgAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA327&lpg=PA327&dq=The+contribution+of+occupation+to+health+inequality&source=bl&ots=ARvoHIjbie&sig=HWA5I2mtJbsV_nJV5cvF6ixZmT0&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=FEj0VNbeGoHlUqjsgdgN&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=The%20contribution%20of%20occupation%20to%20health%20inequality&f=false">Health and Inequality</A>, pages 311-332 in: (P. Rosa Dias and O. O’Donnell (Eds)) Vol. 21 of 'Research on Economic Inequality', Emerald Group Publishing, 2013, 536 pages.<P> While it seems evident that occupations affect health, effect estimates are scarce. We...</p></a>

This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost' (2014). Volume 72, pages 197-220.<P> Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and...</p>

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...