dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be strictly …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 …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

physical health. …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of … influence the labor supply decisions of adult children. …

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … unrelated to the baseline health of the individual, and are significant predictors of retirement. We find that there is no …

while they often suffer from food insecurity, malnutrition, poor health status, poverty, low job security, and often live … myriad of health, mental health, and social and behavioral problems that include chronic health conditions (Slesinger, 1992 … Hightower & Gordon, 1999; Martin & Gordon, 1995; Tan, Ray, et al., 1991), and other co-morbid mental health problems (Alderete …

business cycle. We employ data on migration, regional unemployment rates and health status from ten years of the Panel Study of … also find weaker evidence for married women. These results suggest that - ceterus paribus - aggregate health outcomes in an …

We investigate the proposition that the health of migrants does not constitute a random sample of the health of the … is crucial, as it enables us to observe geographic mobility as well as the health of the migrant prior to migration. We … find that, for men and women below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health distribution reduces …