health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between …

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …

estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax …

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning … typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. This results from …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …

data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on …

Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than … inconsistent. Further reforms are needed to create better employment opportunities for older workers. This implies the abolishment …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …