Gender, Disabilities, and Employment in the Health and Retirement Study

Loprest, Pamela; Rupp, Kalman; Sandell, Steven H.

doi:10.2307/146286

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“…Loprest et al (1995) observe that the effects of disabilities on labour force participation are greater for men and single women than for married women. Ettner (1997) finds evidence that being out of the labour force is less stigmatising for women than for men, so there is less reporting bias among women.…”

Section: Gender Differences In the Effects Of Health On Labour Marketmentioning

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Health and Retirement Decisions: An Update of the Literature

Deschryvere¹

2005

SSRN Journal

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This paper surveys the relation between the labour supply and the health of the elderly, based on major studies conducted earlier and new literature. Most of the empirical literature on the topic is drawn from American data, although new European datasets have enabled analysis in several EU countries. The paper complements previous surveys in that it includes recent European results and overviews most of the latest developments in micro-modelling issues. The quest for unbiased estimates of the effect of health on retirement is characterised by several challenges. One important challenge is the endogenous character of the relationship between health and retirement. A second challenge concerns the reporting bias to which certain health measures may be prone. The empirical literature surveyed suggests that poor health reduces the capacity to work and has a substantial impact on labour force participation. The exact magnitude, however, is sensitive to both the choice of health measures and the identification assumptions. For that reason a comparison of health effects between different studies is difficult. Nevertheless, what has been proven is that the old assumption that objective health measures are superior to subjective health measures needs to be applied with caution.JEL classification: I10, J22, J26

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Section: Gender Differences In the Effects Of Health On Labour Marketmentioning

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Health and Retirement Decisions: An Update of the Literature

Deschryvere¹

2005

SSRN Journal

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“…Health appears to be a multi-dimensional concept so that different measures reflect the various aspects of health [11]. A husband's ill health is estimated to lead to an increase in a wife's probability of employment when health is measured by an index of physical function limitations.…”

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Measuring the effect of husband's health on wife's labor supply

Siegel

2006

Health Economics

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A sizable proportion of women remain married well into late life and an increasing proportion of them participate in the labor force. Since women tend to marry men older than themselves and men tend to experience serious illnesses at younger ages than women, women frequently witness declining health in their husbands. This is likely to affect a wife's labor-leisure trade-off in offsetting ways. Prior studies have not sought to disentangle the effect of a husband's poor health on his wife's reservation wage from the income effect of his ill health. We argue that, if we control for husband's earnings, the coefficient of husband's health in models of his wife's labor force participation (and hours of work) will reflect, in part, her preference over whether to decrease her labor supply to provide health care for her husband or whether to instead increase it to purchase this care in the market. However, husband's earnings are likely to be endogenous in these models due to unobserved characteristics common to husbands and wives. We find that the estimated effect of husband's health depends on whether we instrument for husband's earnings and on the health measure used. This is indicative of the importance of using a variety of health measures and controlling for husband's earnings, and their endogeneity, in future research on the effect of husband's health on wife's labor supply.

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“…Women are also concentrated in fewer occupations compared to men, and, in many cases, men and women work in different occupations. The distributions of health affecting circumstances of men's and women's work are thus expected to differ (Loprest et al 1995). Women also may be more vulnerable to some job conditions such as task routinization (Roxburgh 1996) and physical demands (Loprest et al 1996), although the evidence is sparse.…”

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