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Internal migration in the United States
Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2011
We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312042
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Health and well-being in the crisis
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235135
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The global economic crisis : long-term unemployment in the OECD
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It uses simple econometric models using panel data (quarterly) and time series data. In general, we find that long term unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516908
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The effect of unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : a longitudinal study before and during the financial crisis
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … deterioration of mental health during the 2008-2009 period compared with the 2010-2013 period, i.e., a period in which the country …'s unemployment doubled as a consequence of the financial crisis. Unemployment seems to be more detrimental to health/mental health in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462650
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Surviving the crisis : foreign multinationals vs domestic firms in Ireland
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311507
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Detecting mortgage delinquencies
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312194
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The relationship between the housing & labor market crises and doubling-up : an MSA-level analysis, 2005 - 2010
Rogers, William H.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2013
It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. What is less clear is what happened at the subnational level. This study reports on: 1) how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721429
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Health and health behaviors during the worst of times : evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786469
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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257595
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Income inequality and well-being in the U.S. : evidence of geographic-scale- and measure-dependence
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Graham, Carol - 2016
, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526744