insurance (DI) benefits due to work disability (WD), defined as the (partial) inability to engage in gainful employment due to …This paper studies the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability … physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD and the uptake of DI …

response scales across countries, partly related to social insurance generosity and employment protection. Furthermore, we find …To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights … senior citizens, whose health is not expected to be affected by parental leave. More generous leave rights are found to … may be a cost-effective method of bettering child health …

were impaired in the performance of at least one basic activity. It describes their wealth, living arrangements, and health … characteristics. Tobit regressions are presented that relate utilization of hospital services, paid home-health care, and unreimbursed … home-health care utilization in this population are distinct from the factors that have been significant predictors of …

whose employment patterns are or were hardly affected by the current (early) retirement incentives. Using these "pure health … benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different …

those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this … paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement …

We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 … percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry …

differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …