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psychological health levels of the population. This implies that socioeconomic inequalities tend to produce health inequalities. It … which play an important role on health inequalities. Economic policies can also influence the occurrence, frequency …, duration and the strength of economic cycles which in turn influence socioeconomic factors and therefore health inequalities …
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This paper investigates the effects of childhood deprivation on health at the later stages of the working age. The … results indicate that there is an effect of childhood socioeconomic conditions on later adulthood overall health profile and … second on the likelihood of suffering from a number of medical conditions. The risk of frail health is higher among adult …
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the wage is below the target level, there is real wage rigidity. Employment increases only when the target wage has been …
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Theories of social comparison have a long presence in the social sciences and have provided many useful insights. In economics, the idea of comparison, aspiration or relative income belongs to this theoretical framework. The first systematic usages of this idea can be found in the works of...
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employment-wage combinations come into the picture only when the reference wage is reached. In a unionized economy, this implies … that substantial increases in employment will take place only after the union reference wage has been met. …
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