changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …

, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest …