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Health and employment status : the case of Austria

Biffl, Gudrun - 2004

of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the … health surveys, complemented by administrative data (morbidity rates of the employed and unemployed) and data from the …

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Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations

Macchia, Lucía; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Rationale: Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. Objective: This paper reports the first cross-country study of the links between physical pain and the state of the economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain...

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How does marriage affect physical and psychological health? A survey of the longitudinal evidence

Wilson, Chris M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2005

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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being : evidence from the USA

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010

A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions – asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel – such as "how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4?" Yet there is little...

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Mortality and immortality

Rablen, Matthew D. (contributor); … - 2007

It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control...

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Socio-economic determinants of health and identification of vulnerable groups in the context of migration : the case of Austria

Biffl, Gudrun - 2003

There are marked differences in health conditions of the Austrian population by socioeconomic status, gender, age … largely less skilled migrants but also of providing adequate health services not only for the ageing Austrian population but …

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How does marriage affect physical and psychological health? : A survey of the longitudinal evidence

Wilson, Christopher (contributor); … - 2005

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How does marriage affect physical and psychological health? : A survey of the longitudinal evidence

Wilson, Christopher (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from … marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking. -- mortality ; health ; marriage ; happiness …

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Mortality and immortality

Rablen, Matthew D. (contributor); … - 2007

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Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being : Evidence from the USA

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2010

A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions ﾖ asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel ﾖ such as "how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4?" Yet there is little...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148337