psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … WHO Mortality Database, we show that new drug launches have substantially helped to reduce the loss of labor at the … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …