In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … and physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects …

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to … natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information … levels of subjective health compared to natives and to previous cohorts of immigrants. As time since migration passes by …

incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages … the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …

run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …