Activity limitations and work limitations are often used interchangeably to proxy work disability. The findings of this article show that both definitions produce very similar estimates of disability effect on labour force participation if a two-step model is used to address the endogeneity of...

Using household panel data from Vietnam, this paper compares out-of-pocket health expenditures on outpatient care at a health facility between insured and uninsured patients as well as across various providers. In the random effects model, the estimated coefficient of the insurance status...

This paper examines the impact of self-reported work limitations on the labour force participation of the Australian working age population. Five consecutive waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey are used to investigate this relationship. A two-equation...