those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state … of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that … health is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions. Health effects differ markedly between countries. A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

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

attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that … health and incentives matter in the decision to exit from the labor market. Based on these results, we simulate the effect of …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …

estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to … and non-hospital health-care expenses, we show that the probability of having at least one sickness absence increases for … health expense claims, in particular in the lower part of the expenditure distribution. …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …