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 …

Safety and health at work has, according to the European policies, a key role both in increasing employment, including … and national policies on health and safety at work, then continues with an analysis of statistical data regarding the … situation of health and safety at work for employees in EU-27. A special attention is paid to detailed analysis of recent data …

Child labour has been considered a health risk affecting physical growth. Together with income, diets, diseases and … that child labour might have on physical health and nutritional status. After reporting on what happened during the …

The ILO definition of the worst forms of child labour includes work that is likely to jeopardise health and safety …. Effective targeting of those child work activities most damaging to health requires both conceptual understanding and empirical … evidence of the interactions between child labour and health. The aim of the paper is to review the current state of such …

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 …