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 …

/ Alain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre -- Health capacity to work at older ages: evidence from Canada / Kevin Milligan and Tammy … Schirle -- Health capacity to work at older ages in Denmark / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen … -- Health capacity to work at older ages in France / Didier Blanchet, Eve Caroli, Corinne Prost, and Muriel Roger -- Healthy …

of disability insurance programs on labor force participation by older workers. Drawing on measures of health that are … insurance programs and to what extent disability insurance reforms are prompted by the circumstances of a country’s elderly …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …