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 …

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 …

Aims: To assess the impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) on patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL … characteristics such as gender, symptom severity and time since onset of symptoms are predictive of more impaired health …

consumption and income aggregates measurement errors. The paper reasserts the need to apply reference guidelines to the …, it contends that it is hard to analyze inequality solely from consumption patterns without taking income and savings into … account. Two solutions are proposed for the correction of income measurement errors: by using savings declarations and by …

income-health relationship. … between income and the probability of death in France. The results show that the risk of mortality is strongly correlated with … the level of income, independent from the occupational status. This relationship holds across the whole range of income …

This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering … opportunity stand for almost 50% of the health inequality due to circumstances and efforts in Barry scenario and 57.5% in Roemer … scenario. The comparison of the magnitude of inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries shows considerable …

accumulated from the age of 24 (including zero income years when they start their career after 24). The stochastic dominance …

Using panel data from Argentina during the 1990’s, this paper concludes that, in Argentina, income ‘mobiles’ did change … over time. Among the household variables with a structural relation with income dynamics, we find university education …, protecting from income declines though not necessarily linked to upward movements, certain age ranges of the highest earner …