Employment tribunals (ETs) (formerly named industrial tribunals) were first created in the 1960s under the Industrial Training Act. The current level of activity is .100 000 cases that are commenced each year, though less than a third of those come to trial. Principal complaints are of unfair dismissal and claims under the antidiscrimination laws, which now extend to discrimination on grounds o...

We thank the ERIU for grant support. In addition, we thank participants at two ERIU conferences and at the November 2003 NBER health care program meeting for their comments. All errors remain the authors'.

• health: physical and mental health, public health issues; • education: including low educational attainment and skill levels; • employment: low status and precarious employment, worklessness and low levels of employability; • behaviour: inhibiting and anti-social behaviour including crime, smoking, substance misuse and suicide; • financial: income, assets and material hardship; • family and p...

BACKGROUND Millions of older individuals cope with physical limitations, cognitive changes, and various losses such as bereavement that are commonly associated with aging. Given increased vulnerability to various health problems during aging, work displacement might exacerbate these due to additional distress and to possible changes in medical coverage. Older Americans are of increasing interes...

Using data from the Health and Retirement Survey, we estimate preference and expectations parameters of a structural model of the employment and medical care decisions of older men in order to evaluate the role of health insurance. The budget constraint incorporates detailed cost-sharing characteristics of private health insurance and Medicare as well as rules and requirements associated with S...

BACKGROUND Sociodemographic, health- and work-related factors have been found to influence return to work in cancer survivors. It is feasible though that behavioural factors, such as expectation of being at work, could also affect work-related outcomes. Therefore, the effect of earlier identified factors and expectation of being at work on future employment status in cancer survivors was explor...

OBJECTIVES The prevalence of aged individuals in the Korean workforce continues to increase. This research determined the health and working conditions of Korean older wage workers and confirmed the effects of factors on the health-related quality of life of Korean older workers. METHODS Of the 25,534 persons surveyed in the fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1368 o...

BACKGROUND Very little is known about the economic burden of eating disorders (ED) and related mental health comorbidities. METHODS Using 5 years of data from the U.S. Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, we estimated the difference in annual health care costs, employment status, and earned income (2011 US$) between individuals with current ED compared to those without ED. We further estimated ...