We use the first wave of the Health and Retirement Survey to study the effect of health on the labor force activity of … Black and White men and women in their 50s. The evidence we present confirms the notion that health is an extremely … important determinant of early labor force exit. Our estimates suggest that health differences between Blacks and Whites can …

) health improvement using administrative data on all Dutch disability benefit applicants. We compare those below the DI … eligibility threshold with those above and find that disincentives significantly reduce work resumption after health improves …

) health improvement using administrative data on all Dutch disability benefit applicants. We compare those below the DI … eligibility threshold with those above and find that disincentives significantly reduce work resumption after health improves …

conditions seem to have been important driving forces during the entire period. In contrast changes in health do not seem to … share of the population reporting ill health or disability or to the number claiming benefits. We also find evidence that …