expenditures, (2) significant share of education relegating the role of health care and (3) higher priority of transfer payments … relative to the level of employment and health. The comparative analysis of the composition between pre and post …-restructuring period indicates the shifting of priority from education and health towards transfer payments in the later than the former …

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force … us to measure children's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical … disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm births. Since child health is measured at a very young age, we can rule out any of the …

The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they … can lead directly to adult physical health problems, which cause additional social costs. This paper examines the …

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a … more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration … study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …