biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding … dynamic patterns of employment. -- work limiting disability ; health …

of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and … those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long …-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and estimate a latent variable model of the health states of marital … partners in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. We find strong persistence in health states and a strong comorbidity …

This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … quot;unused capacityquot; in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status …-national differences in work and retirement, while differences in health and demographics play only a minor role …

effects of demography, health, and disability insurance / Axel Börsch-Supan -- Comment / Robert J. Willis -- Labor market … and Jonathan Skinner -- Economic circumstances and health -- Aging and death under a dollar a day / Abhijit V. Banerjee … health and circumstance on health in old age / Anne Case -- Comment / James P. Smith -- Income, aging, health and well …

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …