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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600839
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The effects of private versus public health insurance on health and labor market outcomes
Dauth, Christine - 2021
Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers' careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494992
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
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Impacts of Universal Health Coverage : Financing, Income Inequality, and Social Welfare
Huang, Xianguo - 2017
This paper studies the impact of tax-financed universal health coverage schemes on macroeconomic aspects of labor supply, asset holding, inequality, and welfare, while taking into account features common to developing economies, such as informal employment and tax avoidance, by constructing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966422
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Health Shocks and Overindebtedness : A Panel Data Analysis from Rural Viet Nam
Chhay, Panharoth; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022
Rural households in developing countries have limited capacity to cope with and manage shocks, thereby resulting in chronic poverty, indebtedness, and a decline in overall well-being. We analyze the effects of health shocks on overindebtedness in rural Viet Nam using four rounds of a balanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077701
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Unemployment benefit II, unemployment and health
Eggs, Johannes - 2013
Objectives: A multitude of studies has established a negative relationship between unemployment and health. With the … "Hartz-reforms", unemployment benefit II was introduced in 2005. Whether unemployment benefit II receipt has an impact …, additional to unemployment, on health, is investigated. Methods: For this study data of the panel study "Labour market and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126921
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600911
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Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health? : a comparison of West-Germany and Spain
Gash, Vanessa (contributor); Mertens, Antje (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376466
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Health and employment status : the case of Austria
Biffl, Gudrun - 2004
There are considerable differences in the incidence of sickness, the pattern of diseases and the duration of episodes of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the unemployed. The question why this should be so is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494173