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 …

to conduct discrimination tests and to even prosecute firms, implying that discriminating firms face the risk of a … aware of running the risk of being included in such an experiment. This suggests that the detection risk alone is not …

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 …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …