Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages.<P> We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income … makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through …

See also the article 'Religion and income: heterogeneity between countries' in the <I>Journal of Economic Behavior and … respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …

In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …

See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2 …(3), 1-27.<P> Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however … (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether …

validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper … income regressions. …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

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

countries. In most European countries, unlike the US, there is no evidence that income-related health inequality is greater …An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income …-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a …