Publication type
Research Paper
Series Number
08/03
Series
HEDG Working Papers
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2008
Abstract:
This paper analyses the role of health on exits out of and entries into employment using data from the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2002). We use discretetime duration models to estimate the effect of health on the hazard of becoming non-employed and on the hazard of becoming employed. The results show that general health, measured by a variable that captures health limitations and by a constructed latent health index, affects entries into and exits out of employment; the effects being higher for men than for women. Moreover, results suggest that changes in mental health status influences only the hazard of nonemployment for the stock sample of workers. The results are robust to different definitions of employment, and to the exclusion of older workers from the analysis.
Subjects
Link
- http://ideas.repec.org/p/yor/hectdg/08-03.html
Notes
working paper
#511581