analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using … individual-level population registers on labor market events outcomes, drug prescriptions and sickness absence, comparing … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health …

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a … deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced for working-aged men and are dominated by transitions into the very …

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 …

related drugs, as well as for hospitalizations due to mental health problems for men (but not for women); and (iii) sickness …We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …