Health effects on labour market exits and entries

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Andrew Jones and Nigel Rice

Labour Economics, 2010, vol. 17, issue 1, 62-76

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 discrete-time 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. The results are robust to different definitions of employment, and to the exclusion of older workers from the analysis.

Keywords: Health; Health; shocks; Discrete-time; hazard; models; Employment; BHPS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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