Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Elena Cottini
Author-X-Name-First: Elena
Author-X-Name-Last: Cottini
Author-Email: elena.cottini@unicatt.it
Author-Name: Claudio Lucifora
Author-X-Name-First: Claudio
Author-X-Name-Last: Lucifora
Author-Email: claudio.lucifora@unicatt.it

Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title: Health at Work and Low-pay:a European Perspective
Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between health, working conditions and pay in Europe. In particular, we measure health at work using self-assessed indicators for overall, as well as physical and mental health, using the 2005 wave of the EWCS (European Working Conditions Survey) for 15 EU countries. We find that, controlling for personal characteristics, (adverse) working conditions are associated with poor health status – both physical and mental. Low pay plays a role, mainly for men and when interacted with working conditions, suggesting that stigma and deprivation effects may be correlated with health at work. We also account for the potential endogeneity arising from workers sorting by firms and job types with different working conditions, and provide evidence of a causal effect of (adverse) working conditions and (low) pay on health at the workplace.
Length: 25 pages
Creation-Date: 2009-12
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/Istituti/EconomiaImpresaLavoro/Quaderni/ieil0056.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2009
Number: ieil0056
Classification-JEL: I100, J41, J81
Keywords: working conditions, physical and mental health, low-pay employment
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie4:ieil0056