, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … health and cognition; and health consists of subjective and objective measures. Also, it examines the extensive and intensive … magnitude. People suffering from ill health rarely adjust hours; they rather stop working altogether. Third, cognition is not …

’ labour force participation, cognitive ability, and health in a simple theoretical model, and estimates the effects of … in countries with few formal care alternatives. Furthermore, caregivers in all countries suffer from worse mental health … when caregiving is prompted by poor parental health. The results for the effects of caregiving on physical health and …

, caregiving, and improvements in health outcomes for those likely to provide family care. Using our preferred estimation method …, we find that women with a spouse in poor health are 7.4 percentage points more likely to work while providing care after … in poor health are more likely to work while providing care (5.6 percentage points) after PFL. The implementation of …

-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be … strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlatedbecause of …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. …

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …

cycle model of labor supply and health with heterogeneous agents. The key features of the framework are: (1) people choose … benefits is imperfectly correlated with health, and (3) people can partially insure against health shocks by investing in … health, the cost of which is dependent on health insurance coverage. We find that the incentives faced by older workers …

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health …. The results imply a small value for an additional year of life, suggesting that workers underestimate the health cost of …