This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the … analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out­comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting … health circles/courses increase tenure and decrease the number of job changes across various age groups. A key finding is …

health authorities in the UK and US to recommend measuring waist circumference as a complementary diagnostic tool for obesity …

Federal Health Secretary Rösler deems a reform of the wage-related contribution system in German social health … GKV system. However, other topics are equally important for efficiency, quality and sustainability of the German health … care system: more freedom of contract for sickness funds, a better design of copayments to control health care demand …

health expenditures are biased. Tendencies concerning the distortions of the age structures are identified by decentralizing … the optimal age structure, children are either taxed or subsided, whereas health expenditures are taxed. …

Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health … eligibility on retirement. With data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), I use a difference-in-differences model to show …

and their medical visits. We examine whether the response to prices varies by socioeconomic background or health status … represent a substitution away from inpatient care. The size of the response differs by health and income but not by educational …

longevity. To test our hypothesis, we use Medicare records linked to the National Health Interview Survey to study one such …

laissez-faire economy. Individuals over-invest in health expenditures and choose a non-optimal number of offspring. A … decentralize first-best solutions health expenditures are taxed, whereas children are either taxed or subsided. …