The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what … are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health … state health insurance schemes in reducing the vulnerability to financials risks of medical care using catastrophic 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 …

Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …

Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood … of health shocks using administrative data from Chile. We find that (i) human capital mitigates the negative labor market … effects of health events, (ii) these alleviating effects operate through channels involving occupational choice, the frequency …

This paper proposes a discrete-choice behavioural model of labour supply to examine the role of ill-health on single … allows these preferences to be influenced by a measure of mental health, a latent health index purged of reporting bias and … various measures of health shocks. Exploiting longitudinal data from the HILDA Survey, we find that psychological well …

We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to … persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the … first six waves of the HILDA survey to estimate the joint effect of health status and health shocks on working hours using a …

This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of … SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to … discriminate between three types of explanations, namely: i) age increase in the causal SES effect; ii) reversed health effect on …

China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), I find that body mass index (BMI) is positively associated with SES during early …

This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of … SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to … discriminate between three types of explanations, namely: i) age increase in the causal SES effect; ii) reversed health effect on …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …