are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health. The … considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous … health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current …

Are there negative health effects from losing the job? We analyze the causal effect of job displacement on diabetes … respect to health we match them to comparable workers not being displaced. On average we do not find signs for a significant …