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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …