"The courses of individual people's working lives constitute the object of research into the patterns of working life. In the context of socio-medical research into working life patterns, the health-related consequences of gainful employment and interruptions in it (research into causes of...

"This paper tests whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using data from the American Health and Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less from functional problems than older cohorts at given ages....