This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a … more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration … study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose …

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child's noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child's health …

. Critical assessment of morbidity data casts doubt on the appropriateness and efficiency of health and welfare services …Assessments of the changing pattern of health in the present century are made on the basis of very limited evidence … morbidity data is strongly influenced by revailing assumptions about health care; these in turn reflect economic pressures …

also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

the causes and effects of long-term changes in the health of the European populations. The paper surveys methods which had …