Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous … acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more … circumstances. If firms are not ex ante identical, the endogenous acceleration mechanism suggests a growing divergence in …

. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are …We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …

widening gradient is attributable both to health-related withdrawal from the labor force, resulting in lower incomes, and the … old age. It also reflects that after middle age, withdrawal from the labor force increasingly occurs for non health …A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

labor market outcomes and hospitalization. This famine is clearly demarcated in time and space. It was not anticipated …

depreciation when knowledge of technologies becomes obsolete. After a shock in technology, the worker depreciates on his human …