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education group across varying levels of social spending. …
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The aim of this paper is to examine educational inequalities in the risk of non-employment among people with illnesses and how they vary between European countries with different welfare state characteristics. In doing so, the paper adds to the growing literature on welfare states and social...
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Although higher education has been associated with lower mortality rates in many studies, the effect of potential … increases in higher education on mortality in European populations. We used mortality and population data according to … second, upward levelling scenario in which everyone has obtained tertiary education. The reduction of mortality in the cohort …
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This study assesses the interaction between personal education and family background during childhood on depressive … education. OLS regression models are estimated using data from the “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” (SHARE … aged 50 or older from thirteen European countries. Higher education helps to overcome the negative consequences of a poor …
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Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies … report causal effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality ranging anywhere from zero to large and negative … mortality gain and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that more education yields small mortality …
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Link and Phelan have proposed to explain the persistence of health inequalities from the fact that socioeconomic status is a “fundamental cause” which embodies an array of resources that can be used to avoid disease risks no matter what mechanisms are relevant at any given time. To test this...
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