work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes …We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on …

-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market …, employment or non-stressful jobs. Lastly, we investigate the consequences of structural labor market changes by evaluating the … impact on health, employment and inequality of changes in the distribution of job health contents. …

explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase …

This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … Germany. We exploit sharp differences in legal access to alcohol at 16 and 18 years by implementing a regression discontinuity … alcohol has, at most, a minor impact on drunk driving and mortality at age 16 and 18 years. This study thus provides fresh …

continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women …

survey of policy changes in the Scandinavian countries and Germany as other determinants of labor force participation in the …

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time …

western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase … in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence of this can be found in the latest data …, which was conducted for the first time in eastern Germany in 1990—shortly before economic, currency, and social union. Other …