feminisation of the doctor profession, it is essential to measure this income gap in the French context of Fee-for-service payment … income gap between males and females general practitioners (GPs). This paper focuses on the role of gender medical practices …-practice GPs, we measured an average gender income gap of approximately 26% in favour of men. Using the decomposition method, we …

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 ne gative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is de trimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

In this paper, we analyze the choice of primary prevention made by individuals who bear a risk of being in bad health … utility (depending on wealth and health), we show that the presence of a well-known (no ambiguity) additive risk of …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health … potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When … tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health …

This paper analyses the impact of health, pension systems and longevity on savings. It uses a simple life-cycle model … embodying social transfers (health care and pension expenditures) and changes in longevity to determine the level of household … of view of incentive to save, health transfers have a similar impact as pension replacement rates. Therefore, welfare …

social transfers (health care and pension expenditures) and changes in longevity to determine the level of household savings … both pension and health transfers may have a significant negative impact on the household saving. Therefore these …

How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and … even a deterioration in their health between 1999 and 2005. Subsequently, taking the reform as a tool to filter out the …

health dimensions. We introduce the concept of equivalent income as a measure of well-being that respects preferences with … respect to the trade-off between income and health, but is not subjectively welfarist since it does not rely on the direct …We compare two approaches to measuring inequity in the health distribution. The first is the concentration index. The …