Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing...

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a...

The central research question of this dissertation is how labor market institutions shape social patterns of employment. More specifically, it analyzes how labour market policies and regulation affect the labour market performance of men and women, different age groups, and educational levels....

Health Equity kann eine Aufwärtsspirale im Gesundheitssystem und in der Volkswirtschaft in Gang setzen. Verbessert sich durch eine gerechte Verteilung der Chancen auf den bestmöglichen individuellen Gesundheitszustand das Wohlbefinden der Menschen, werden überforderte Strukturen entlastet und...