This paper examines the relationship between health and labour force participation using data from the first three … waves of the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE) (2002/05). Using various health measures, the results show that … health is significantly related to labour force participation, even after accounting for certain types of endogeneity. The …

This paper aims to quantify some of the costs associated with ill health in New Zealand. The main focus is in … estimating indirect costs as opposed to direct health care expenditure costs. In particular, it estimates the cost of absenteeism …, presenteeism, working less and not working at all owing to ill health. Around 1,196,200 working age, non-students are estimated to …

and temporal variation inhousing price appreciation linked to individual-level health data in China from 2000 to 2011.We … diseases. This negative health impact is more pronounced amongindividuals from low-income families, households that purchased … marriage market competition exacerbates these negative health effects,particularly for males and parents with young adult sons …

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 treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

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 treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which … exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of … working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely …