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entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …
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entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432474
entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … their higher income. Physical and mental health play a crucial role in determining both an individual's occupational status … elderly individuals. However, when controlling for health, retirees exhibit an even higher level of life satisfaction compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419229
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides …-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318707
A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …. A 10 percent increase in income increases good health by about 0.01-0.02 standard deviations. …
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significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you … this paper we assess for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set from 1991-2008 how life satisfaction interacts … with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in …
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life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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life-style choices (drinking, smoking, exercise) and income on six measures of health in the US Health and Retirement Study …Survey-based health research is in a boom phase following an increased amount of health spending in OECD countries and … the interest in ageing. A general characteristic of survey-based health research is its diversity. Different studies are …
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better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial … situation during childhood on quality of life after retirement as well as the mediating role of later life health, educational … level, and income in this association. Moreover, this study is the first to compare these pathways across European regions …
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Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
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