spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. For example, the … behavior, health status, and major life events, over time. To deal with endogenous aspects of these events we apply fixed … that the results are of importance for the design of health care and labor market policy towards the elderly. …

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …