We investigate the labour supply response to acute health shocks experienced in the post-crash labour market by … acute health shock, defined by the incidence of cancer, stroke, or heart attack. Results, obtained through a combination of … coarsened exact and propensity score matching, show acute health shocks significantly reduce participation, with younger workers …

of the country. Building on data on individuals aged 50 or older drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement … inequity in older people health and healthcare access (i.e. GP contacts and specialists' visits) across Italian macro …-areas since the Great Recession onset. Results show that in the North, while health has been improving on average, income …

Based on administrative data covering employment, social security and hospital record histories, we investigate the … effect of acute cardiovascular health shocks resulting in unplanned hospitalisation, on blue collars' long-term labour …. Results point at sizeable and persistent reductions in employment and labour income, while hours and wage adjustments appear …

consumer demand is price elastic, they may influence the amount of eligible health care expenditure for which taxpayers may … claim a credit. These two effects influence, in turn, income redistribution and may affect taxpayers' health status and … therefore income-related inequality in health. Redistributive consequences of tax credits have been widely investigated; however …

-being. In particular, we look at the effects on health inequalities following the assignment of larger tax power to the Italian … Regions for financing their health expenditure, starting from the end of the Nineties. Exploiting large differences in the …-regional disparities in health outcomes. However, the degree of economic development – on which depends the actual fiscal autonomy from …

We investigate the consequences of experiencing an acute health shock, namely the first onset of myocardial infarction … Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and cover sixteen European countries … availability of an extremely rich set of health and labour market information as well as of panel data. To remove the potential …

health care. Services typically sought by travelers include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries …-class medical treatment and India is becoming a "global health destination". This policy however does not develops into better …

self-insurance through a partner’s response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical …Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … evidence on the existence of a health-related `added worker effect’. We use UK longitudinal data to investigate within …

We estimate the direct causal effect of loneliness on a variety of health outcomes using a sample of second …-generation immigrants drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. In an effort to account for the endogeneity of self … significant impact on health, both mental and physical. Notably, our identification strategy allows us to uncover a more severe …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to study the relationship between health status and … economic welfare at household level. We develop a model to estimate the welfare cost of ill health by exploiting the … methodology of the equivalence scales. The crucial variables in this approach are, besides the health status (measured in several …