, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health …

health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a …

OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … employment prospects increase with weight, albeit with diminishing returns. However, underweight men in blue-collar jobs earn …

, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

Physical exercise for the good of your health is accepted practice in western industrialized societies. Given, however … conclusions about the complex ways in which exercise and health interact. The question remains: Are exercisers healthier because … Socio - Economic Panel (SOEP) data. SOEP analyses show that a high level of health satisfaction encourages an active …