Health effects on labour market exits and entries

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-76

  García Gómez, Pilar ^a,b   Jones, Andrew M ^c   Rice, Nigel ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Centre de Recerca en Economia i Salut   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BHPS; Discrete time hazard models; Employment; Health; Health shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549111107     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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