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 …

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 …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …

This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …