Using the first seven waves of the Understanding Society data, this study estimates the effects of health on the extensive and intensive margins of the labour supply of the UK workers. Earlier studies on the effects of health on labour supply tend to focus on a binary measure of labour force participation or early retirement. The results show that health affects both the margins of labour supply for both males and females. From the preferred model, the results indicate that the effects of health on both the margins of labour supply are larger for females than for males. Furthermore, the results show that while at the extensive margin there does not appear to be a difference in the effect of health between the old and the young for both genders, for males the effect of health on hours worked, conditional on being employed, is larger for the old than for the young, but for females the effect on hours worked is larger for the young than for the old. The results also show that inadequately exploiting the longitudinal features of panel data might have led to bias estimates.

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健康对广泛和密集的劳动力供应边际的影响

本研究使用理解协会数据的前七波，估计了健康对英国工人劳动力供给的广泛和集约化边际的影响。关于健康对劳动力供应的影响的早期研究倾向于集中于劳动力参与或提前退休的二元测量。结果表明，健康影响着男性和女性的劳动力供应边际。根据首选模型，结果表明，健康状况对女性的劳动供给边际的影响要大于男性。此外，研究结果表明，尽管男女之间的健康影响在很大程度上没有差别，但对于男性，健康对工作时间，受雇时间的影响，老年人比年轻人要大，但是对于女性，工作时间的影响比年轻人要大。结果还表明，未充分利用面板数据的纵向特征可能导致偏差估计。