Piper, Alan T.; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … containing data on pain and labor market status has meant less is known about the direction of any causal linkage. Those … the measurement of pain and model specification. We contribute to this literature using large-scale panel data from the …