Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242503 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 2011/01
Publisher: 
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Auckland
Abstract: 
This paper presents an investigation into the impacts of mental and physical health on the propensity to be employed. Health status is parameterised using three physical and three mental health indicators. After controlling for various socioeconomic factors, the application of limited dependent variable regression techniques generates results which indicate that activity-limiting physical health and accomplishment-limiting mental health issues significantly affect the propensity to be employed. Further investigations reveal gender and ethnicity divides and that health is exogenous to employment status.
Subjects: 
Mental health
Physical health
Employment status
Ethnicity
Gender
JEL: 
I1
J29
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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