, 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 …

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 …

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 …

health is analyzed. Extending previous studies methodologically to estimate unbiased effects of job satisfaction on … individual health, it can be shown that low job satisfaction affects individual health negatively. In a second step, the … underlying forces of this broad effect are disentangled. The analysis shows that the effects of job satisfaction on health run …

The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer … these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may therefore lead to a decline of avoidable illnesses and related … health care costs. In this context, we use German micro data to identify determinants of smoking, drinking and obesity. Our …

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

While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts … evidence of negative effects on general, mental, or physical health in the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF12), nor on self …-assessed health or doctor visits. We also do not find evidence for effects on suicides, an extreme measure of negative mental health …