This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This work uses the first wave of SHARE to analyze the impact of health and satisfaction at work on preferences … people wishing to retire as soon as possible. We examine how health and work conditions contribute to explain differences in … are consistent with expectations, but they are of little help for explaining international differences. Fixing health and …

non financial factors. Non financial factors include working conditions, health status and mortality expectations … macroeconomic indicators of pension entitlements recently produced by the OECD. Health and work conditions come out as strong … percentage points in the probability of wishing to retire as soon as possible. Declaring oneself in bad or very bad health has a …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The outcome variable of interest was the self …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …