This paper examines the long-run effect of FDI on health in developed countries. Using panel cointegration techniques …, we find a significant and negative long-run effect. -- FDI ; health ; panel cointegration …

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies … new knowledge, exporting to less developed markets should not generate as much productivity growth as exporting to … highest productivity premium and that the ability to benefit from exporting in general and exporting to advanced markets in …

This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging … timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income and pension payments and investments in health that individuals … the traditionally separate areas of health and retirement policy can be coordinated to achieve dynamic efficiency. Under …

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … in the literature. The analysis emphasises the importance to analyse health related behaviour in a dynamic life cycle …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health …, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …