. Together with the lack of mobility in health observed, we can thus conclude that Mexico is becoming more rigid over time …The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to …

expenditure suggests that health care is a luxury good in these states. By contrast, the short-run elasticity obtained from the … regressions in first differences is in the range (0,1) for most US states, which suggests that health care is a necessity good … instead. The implications of these results for health policy are also discussed …

The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities … shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational … standing. This paper documents evidence of non-negligible returns to occupation status on health (which we refer as ‘healthy …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and … such associations do not fade over generations. We estimate that a one standard deviation change in ancestral health …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and … developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …