We apply mixed proportional hazards models to a Dutch insurer's portfolio of income insurance contracts and show that physical and mental ill-health and bad lifestyle habits generally have adverse effects on self-employed workers' disability outcomes. Yet our main result is that accurate...

Traditional labour supply theories stress economic variables as unemployment and wages to explain differences inlabour supply behaviour. Nowadays a number of trends can be observed in the literature about labour supply theoryand modelling: the integration of market-based and power based...