The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … the measurement of pain and model specification. We contribute to this literature using large-scale panel data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 2002 to 2018. We show that pain leads to job loss. Workers suffering pain …

In this paper we use cross-state panel data to show a positive and significant correlation between various measures of …