worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …

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 …

health benefits in 1992 and had retired by 1996, 3 percent were uninsured, and 15 percent were covered by health insurance … other than employer-provided insurance. On the relationship between retiree health benefits and retirement, we find that …Employer-provided health benefit coverage for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We …