, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the …

This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in … Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence of different types of health deficiencies obtained from …

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

The composition, wealth and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health …

health. These patterns, which are consistent with previous findings on the effects of individual parental employment and job … health outcomes. In addition to using state unemployment rates to proxy for labor market conditions, as is common in the … existing literature, we construct predicted employment growth indices that allow us to separately identify demand …

health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We propose using undocumented immigrants as the counterfactual, as they … for both the legal and undocumented populations. The relationship between health and disability is far stronger for those … between the two populations can be explained by different responses to underlying health impairments.Institutional subscribers …

This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We … use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor … how the timing of health shocks affects labor force behavior. Controlling for lagged values of health, poor …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using … weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of …

We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on … work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes … on individual-level objective and subjective health and socioeconomic parameters as predictors …