of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the … health surveys, complemented by administrative data (morbidity rates of the employed and unemployed) and data from the …

There are marked differences in health conditions of the Austrian population by socioeconomic status, gender, age … largely less skilled migrants but also of providing adequate health services not only for the ageing Austrian population but …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … and physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects …

incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …