This paper studies how unemployment affects public health costs. We use plant closure as an instrument for unemployment … because bankruptcy is unlikely to be caused by deteriorating health but has a strong impact on workers' subsequent employment …. The empirical analysis is based on an extremely rich data set with comprehensive information on various types of health …

We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear … evidence of a healthy worker selection effect. We find little evidence of a contemporaneous impact of child work on health but …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …

work environment and employee health and its impact on organisational production. Searches in several databases were … factors and employee health are predictors of production loss. The evidence was clearest with regard to job strain and … musculoskeletal pain. Although there was some evidence for the impact of psychosocial work factors and the health of employees on self …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear … evidence of a healthy worker selection effect. We find little evidence of a contemporaneous impact of child work on health but …

The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the … causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling … Condition. The estimation results reinforce the conventional wisdom that child labor is harmful for health in the long run. The …

This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … quot;unused capacityquot; in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status …-national differences in work and retirement, while differences in health and demographics play only a minor role …

This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … “unused capacity” in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status and … work and retirement, while differences in health and demographics play only a minor role. …