Health and Labour Market Outcomes
Type
applied research project
Start Date
30 August 2005
Status
ongoing
Keywords
Health Outcomes
Labour Market outcomes
Active Labour Market Evaluation
Social Security in European Economies
Description
The main objective of this project is to understand the effect of Health (Health outcomes) on the dynamics of the labour force and labour market outcomes. Western Economies are experiencing a rapid change in the demographic composition of the active labour force. We can think of this change as a direct effect of an ever increasing life expectancy and the implications this has on labour force composition, labour force participation and retirement decisions. However, advances in medical science and technology imply that certain health conditions are no longer an impediment for individuals to participate in paid labour market activities, either at the traditional prime age definition or beyond the traditional definition or retirement age. In all, it is important for policy makers to understand the interaction between economics, health and health status, and social factors that might affect both health and labour market decisions in the population.
Therefore it is important to use adequate econometric techniques to analyse informative data at the micro-level and understand the causal direction between labour market outcomes and health outcomes, as well as changes in the causality direction over the life cycle. The aim of this project is achieved by studying health outcomes and labour market outcomes allowing for different (objective and subjective) health measures, and differentials of these interactions over the life cycle of individuals. The project will employ both partial and general equilibrium models to understand the effect of health related global policies that might affect labour market outcomes in the population.
Leader contributor(s)
Vazquez-alvarez, Rosalia
Member contributor(s)
Vazquez-alvarez, Rosalia
Funder(s)
Topic(s)
Health Economics
Labour Economics
Applied Econometrics using Programme Evaluation techniques
Method(s)
Applied Microe-econometrics
Nonparametric matching
Propensity Score methods
Notes
Discussion Papers:
Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia (2003); The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4223
Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia (2008), Effects of the Onset of Health shocks on the retirement decision of European workers, University of St.Gallen working paper
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Eprints ID
19466

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  • Publication
    The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching
    ( 2003-01-01)
    Lechner, Michael
    ;
    Vazquez-alvarez, Rosalia
    If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disabled and non-disabled individuals. This Paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for programme evaluation. Such techniques are fairly robust with respect to model misspecification and account for the common support problem, thus improving the identification and estimation strategy. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2001) we estimate the impact of disability on labour market participation and different income measures. We find that those who are not disabled experience higher employment rates and higher earnings relative to those who have become disabled. This difference is almost always significant for all labour market outcomes considered. available online at CEPR or Download Discussion Paper: (pdf, 838 kb)
    Type: discussion paper
    Issue: 4223
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/69877
  • Publication
    Effects of the onset of an adverse health condition on the retirement decision of European workers
    (HSG-WP, 2008)
    Vazquez-alvarez, Rosalia
    This paper estimates the effect of experiencing the onset of an adverse health condition on the retirement decision of European workers. Conditional on institutional characteristics (country and individual dependent) and a selection of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the individual, we are able to net out the effect of health conditions that occur before the decision to retire, if retired. This paper compares the effect of adverse health conditions on the decision to retire from individuals aged 50 and over from 11 European countries using the 2004 SHARE survey. The results suggest that suffering an adverse health condition can significantly increase the age of retirement although this may not necessarily imply an increase in total contributory pensions: some specific countries (Greece and Switzerland in particular) may deviate from the overall result. The results are carefully estimated controlling for potential sources of endogeneity and selection bias.
    Type: working paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/79763