Does trade with low-wage countries steal American jobs and, hence, rob American workers of higher wages and a higher …

that for all country groups, the mediating role of wages in the health-employment nexus is relatively small while the …This paper adds to the empirical literature on health as an important determinant of employment at older ages by … exploring the role in the health-employment nexus of the wage rates of 50 to 64-year-old workers. To do so, we use individual …

employment consisting of homemaker duties, unpaid work, forced labour, wages labour, informal sector, schooling, leisure and … (differing household situations and health as well as labour market connections (sexual division of labour and exploitation, etc …

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Yoth to examine the effect of smoking on wages and … employment. The panel nature and household structure of these data enable us to implement methods to account for differences in … observed and unobserved individual characteristics that may be correlated with both smoking and wages. …

This paper investigates the impact of health risk on insurance contract with hazard moral. We use a bi …-dimensional utility function (wealth and health status). We prove that the type of health risk influences the equilibrium of insurance … market. A full coverage is possible with moral hazard. Finally, the link between health risk and co-payment can be invalided. …

prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from …This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …

insurance, the likelihood of joint retirement more than doubled. The effect of retiree health insurance on overall employment …Because the near-elderly have high expected medical expenditures, availability of health insurance is an important … study investigate whether access to employer-provided retiree health insurance enabled dual working couples to time their …