To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?ʺ A possible drawback of … they don’t work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation than working …

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 …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

access to paid sick leave. Low-income employees, service sector employees, and those in poor health have the lowest coverage …

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 …