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dc.contributor.authorLindeboom, Maartenen
dc.contributor.authorLlena-Nozal, Anaen
dc.contributor.authorvan der Klaauw, Basen
dc.date.accessioned2006-11-07-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T09:11:23Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T09:11:23Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/33382-
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are important in explaining adult health and socioeconomic outcomes. Those who have experienced bad conditions during early childhood have higher rates of health deterioration during adulthood, are more likely to become non-employed and suffer from longer spells of non-employment during the course of life.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x2096en
dc.subject.jelI12en
dc.subject.jelJ28en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keyworddisabilityen
dc.subject.keywordworken
dc.subject.keywordhealth shocksen
dc.subject.keywordevent-history modelen
dc.subject.keywordearly childhooden
dc.subject.stwLebenszyklusen
dc.subject.stwKinderen
dc.subject.stwKrankheiten
dc.subject.stwErwerbsunfähigkeiten
dc.subject.stwEinkommenen
dc.subject.stwGroßbritannienen
dc.titleDisability and work: the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn51093191Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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