This article explores the effect of accidents and chronic diseases on participation in the French labour market, while accounting for socioeconomic and gender effects. We use a dynamic definition of the control group and the difference-in-differences exact matching estimator, which controls for...

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed and, at the same time, working affects the health...