In den Beiträgen zum Person-Schaden-Forum 2015 befassen sich Hans-Jakob Mosimann, David Husmann und Patrick Suter aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln mit dem nicht einfachen Umgang mit unklaren Beschwerdebildern im Haftpflicht- und Sozialversicherungsrecht. Thomas Geiser vertieft mit dem Fokus, welche Ansprüche aus dem Arbeitsverhältnis geltend gemacht werden können. Der Beitrag von Marc Hürzeler beleuchtet die Frage, ob die Versorgungsbedürftigkeit beim Schaden infolge Tötung eine Rolle spielen kann. Von Stephan Fuhrer, Volker Pribnow und Ueli Kieser werden die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Haftpflicht-, Privat- und Sozialversicherungsrecht analysiert und übersichtlich präsentiert.
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health and intellectual ability that complement self-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the SHP panel structure with job satisfaction lagged mitigate the simultaneity bias, employing the objective health measures in the SHARE dataset addresses measurement problems resulting from respondents' affective states. For all datasets, we find a positive link between job satisfaction and self-report health measures; that is, employees with higher job satisfaction levels feel healthier, are less depressed, and report fewer impediments in their daily activities. However, once objective measures of physical health are employed, we observe no such link. Rather, the only positive relationship is for intellectual abilities. These primary findings are then tested using additional controls for working conditions, prior health state and affective mental state. The results indicate that job satisfaction partly serves as a transmission channel.
