has, once again, become the focus of socio-political debate. SOEP data confirm the income risks that those claiming …, one-quarter of all recipients were living in income poverty. Moreover, analyses using data from the SOEP longitudinal … study also indicate increasingly negative income disparities among recipients of reduced earnings capacity pension once they …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective and objective measures of health of … workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and … measures of physical health and intellectual ability. We find a positive link between job satisfaction and various self …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The outcome variable of interest was the self …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched injured and non-injured workers …, these health shocks (predominantly impairments in the musculoskeletal system) are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed …

demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self …. There are overall no retirement effects in the age bracket 50-58 and thus no indication for strong adverse health effects. A …

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …