The impact of acute health shocks on the labour supply of older workers: Evidence from sixteen European countries

Trevisan, Elisabetta; Zantomio, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2016.04.002

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“…In addition to event studies that include person fixed effects, many of the studies also use matching methods, comparing individuals who experienced a shock with a matched control group of individuals who did not. In seven out of nine countries, the probability of employment drops significantly after a health shock, while in two countries (France and Italy) the drop is not statistically significant Trevisan and Zantomio (2016) Europe 2002-2013 ELSA SHARE…”

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Health and Economic Activity Over the Lifecycle: Literature Review

Prinz¹,

Chernew²,

Cutler³

et al. 2018

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We systematically review the literature linking health to economic activity, particularly education and labor market outcomes, over the lifecycle. In the first part, we review studies that link childhood health to later-life outcomes. The main themes we focus on are in-utero exposures, birthweight, physical health and nutrition, mental health, and the environment. In the second part, we review studies of the impact of health on labor market success for adults. The main themes we focus on are the environment, disability, physical health shocks, within-household spillovers, cancer, and mental health.

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confidence: 92%

“…In another study comparing several European countries, Trevisan and Zantomio (2016) focus on particular kinds of acute health shocks (myocardial infarction, stroke, and cancer) and older workers. The author suggests that this might be because women are much more likely to be employed in the public sector and therefore enjoy higher job security.…”

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Health and Economic Activity Over the Lifecycle: Literature Review

Prinz¹,

Chernew²,

Cutler³

et al. 2018

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“…The four idiosyncratic error terms in equations (1)-(4) are allowed to correlate with each other and are assumed to follow a multivariate normal distribution. In addition, 16 Similar evidence is provided by Trevisan and Zantomio (2016). 17 This approach, mostly developed by Wooldridge and coauthors, is often referred to as a correlated random effects model.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…For instance, based on the findings of Rohwedder and Willis (2010) mental health is unlikely to be a valid instrument for health in our model. Studies such as Trevisan and Zantomio (2016), Westerlund et al (2010) and Wu (2003) argue that severe health conditions (such as strokes, cancer or diabetes) are likely to be exogenous variables and, therefore, valid instruments in their models. Likewise, García-Gómez (2011) uses as an alternative for SRH the onset of a chronic health condition to explain transitions across labour market outcomes in European countries.…”

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What Do Wages Add to the Health‐Employment Nexus? Evidence from Older European Workers

Flores

Kalwij

2018

Oxf Bull Econ Stat

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The role of wages in the health‐employment nexus can be important for designing employment policies aimed at older workers with health limitations. We, therefore, estimate the direct effect of health on employment and hours worked and its indirect effect that is mediated through wages using individual‐level panel data from SHARE. The endogeneity of self‐reported health is controlled for by instrumenting it with severe health conditions in a correlated random effects model. For men, we find that the direct effects of health deterioration, as measured by a reduction in health from the 75th to the 50th percentile of the health distribution, are about a 20% point lower employment probability and about 171 fewer hours worked per year. The indirect health effects through wages work in the opposite directions as health positively affects wages and wages negatively affect employment and hours worked. The total effects of this health deterioration amount to a 12% point lower employment probability and 95 fewer hours worked per year. In particular our finding of a large direct health effect on employment suggests an instrumental role for policy aimed at accommodating workers with health limitations to keep them employed at older ages.

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“…Not only are women's sickness absence levels higher than men's (see, for instance, Markussen et al, 2011), but more importantly, women also appear less responsive to workplace changes. Elsewhere, these include negative organizational shocks/change in job security (Bratberg & Monstad, 2015;Ichino & Riphahn, 2005); their absenteeism reacts differently to social security reform (Johansson & Palme, 2005), and their labour supply responses to a negative health shock are different from those of men (Trevisan & Zantomio, 2016). In general, this gender difference could arise from differences in options or preferences, possibly shaped by gender roles.…”

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Health effects of reduced workload for older employees

2020

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To keep elder employees in the labour force, introducing age‐dependent job conditions can be a policy measure. However, we know little about the effect of such initiatives. We investigate the effects of a particular programme in Norway that reduces the workload of teachers at age 55 but maintains the same wage. Evaluation of this programme is well suited to a difference‐in‐difference analysis, where the control group is teachers slightly too young to be eligible for the workload reduction. Using full population register data for the period 2006–2013, we analyse the effects of the programme on health as indicated by sickness absence and health care utilization. We find that whereas there is no effect among women, the workload reduction causes a decrease in sickness absence and an improvement in mental health among males. These results, which are robust to a placebo test, to extending the pretreatment period, and to dropping single birth cohorts, are driven by a subgroup of men whose prior health status is poor.

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The impact of acute health shocks on the labour supply of older workers: Evidence from sixteen European countries

Cited by 70 publications

References 73 publications

Health and Economic Activity Over the Lifecycle: Literature Review

Health and Economic Activity Over the Lifecycle: Literature Review

What Do Wages Add to the Health‐Employment Nexus? Evidence from Older European Workers

Health effects of reduced workload for older employees

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