that for all country groups, the mediating role of wages in the health-employment nexus is relatively small while the …This paper adds to the empirical literature on health as an important determinant of employment at older ages by … exploring the role in the health-employment nexus of the wage rates of 50 to 64-year-old workers. To do so, we use individual …

status in decisions to transition to self-employment. Much of the past literature has incorporated health status in models … using a discrete factor random effects model. Three hypotheses for the direct effect of health on the self-employment … decision are put forth. The indirect effect that health may have in determining one’s valuation of health insurance coverage is …

employment consisting of homemaker duties, unpaid work, forced labour, wages labour, informal sector, schooling, leisure and … (differing household situations and health as well as labour market connections (sexual division of labour and exploitation, etc …

This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Yoth to examine the effect of smoking on wages and … employment. The panel nature and household structure of these data enable us to implement methods to account for differences in … observed and unobserved individual characteristics that may be correlated with both smoking and wages. …

changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …