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 …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers over 50 using the … Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE … problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health and intellectual ability that complement self …

of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and … those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self …. There are overall no retirement effects in the age bracket 50-58 and thus no indication for strong adverse health effects. A …

of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and … those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self …. There are overall no retirement effects in the age bracket 50-58 and thus no indication for strong adverse health effects. A …

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

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

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 …