Health shocks, employment and income in the Spanish labour markets

Pilar Garcia-Gomez and Ángel López Nicolás ()

Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers from HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between health shocks and labour outcomes in the Spanish population using the European Community Household Panel. In order to control for the nonexperimental nature of the data we use matching techniques. Our results suggest that there is a significant effect running from health to the probability of employment and to labour income. Moreover, while we cannot investigate the influence of childhood events and other phenomena that trigger long run causal pathways from socio-economic status to health, we are able to find a significant reduction in the probability of reporting good health in individuals who transit out of employment in comparison with individuals who are otherwise identical in terms of reported health status at the time of the transition.

Keywords: health shocks; unemployment; matching; Spain. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I12 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-11
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