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In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread … results show that the smoke haze from these fires had a deleterious effect on population health in Malaysia. …
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, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to …
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What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …
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Inference from Web surveys may be affected by non-random selection of Web survey participants. One approach to reduce selection bias is to use propensity scores and a parallel phone survey. This approach uses demographic and additional so-called Webographic or lifestyle variables to balance...
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well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four … and health. Income has the lowest impact. As in other work, they find that American response styles differ from the Dutch …
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …
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more often report that they have a work limiting health problem than respondents in the US. The difference remains when … controlling for demographic characteristics and observed onsets of health problems. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of … response scales for different health domains is compared with a model that allows for domain specific response scales. Results …
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Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, crosscountry differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of...
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This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the U.S., the U.K. and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the U.S. and the Netherlands, respondent...
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Income taxes distort the relationship between wages and non-taxable amenities. When the marginal tax rate increases, amenities become more valuable as the compensating differential for low-amenity jobs is taxed away. While there is evidence that the provision of amenities responds to taxes, the...
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