We analyze the effect of job insecurity on psychological health. We extend the group of people being affected to … employees who have insecure jobs to account for a broader measure of the mental health consequences of potential unemployment … fear of unemployment substantially decreases the mental health status of employees. Quantile regression results yield …

älterer Arbeitsloser funktioniert, wird die Situation in fünf Ländern analysiert: Deutschland, Frankreich, Niederlande …

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 …

Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

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 …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …