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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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
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Economic upturns are good for your heart but watch for accidents : a study on Swedish regional data 1976 - 2005
Svensson, Mikael - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 4/6, pp. 615-625
This article explores the relationship between the regional unemployment rate in total and cause-specific mortality in … Sweden during 1976-2005. Overall mortality is unrelated to changes in the unemployment rate, while the biggest cause of death … (heart disease) decreases when the unemployment rate decreases. At the same time, other accidents, including job …
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Effects of short- and long-term unemployment on health satisfaction : evidence from German data
Romeu Gordo, Laura - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 20, pp. 2335-2350
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Job insecurity, employability and health : an analysis for Germany across generations
Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Applied economics 48 (2016) 13/15, pp. 1303-1316
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