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 …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …

-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest … accumulation. -- Orphans ; health ; education ; timing of parental death ; child development ; Tanzania …

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables … statistically significant positive impact on population health. Also, there is some evidence that inequality is endogenous in the …

This paper examines the role of the health gradient the positive correlation between household income and health in …-specific health gradients and find their slope increases with age, but declines among retired workers. We then estimate a variety of … parametric and semi-parametric duration models and find that workers’ position relative to the agegroup-specific health gradient …

. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find …