Index (BMI) and related weight measures. Based on the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in …

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), our identification strategy exploits the European variation in …

This paper estimates the causal e ect 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 …. After controlling for endogeneity, the health-damaging e ect of job insecurity is con rmed for a subgroup of health outcomes …

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 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 …

The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a … health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different cities throughout the world. The initial assumption is that the socio …-economic inequalities found within cities give rise to specific problems of health and social breakdowns and can, in certain cases, lead to …

. Developing effective prevention programs requires understanding the influence of both individual and health system level factors … population aged 50 and over in 14 European countries, pooling data from the two waves of Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement …-side characteristics and supply-side health systems features to be separately identified. The analysis shows significant variations in …