We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

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

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 …

Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from … analyses of severe shocks, whereas minor variations in health are not only more common but also a better target for prevention … prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …

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

This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health … of retirement after their husbands experience a work-limiting health shock. Results suggest that this increased … the effect spousal health shocks have on the various labor market outcomes examined here, which suggests an important role …

substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be …-specific complementarities. -- Intra-household allocation ; health shocks ; complementarity …