The most famous modern definition of health was created during a Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization in 1946: 'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' This definition has not been amended...

The most famous modern definition of health was created during a Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization in 1946: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This definition has not been...

In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...