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more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …
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Deviations from heteronormativity affect labour market dynamics. Hierarchies of sexual orientation can result in job dismissals, wage discrimination, and the failure to promote gay and lesbian individuals to top ranks. In this paper, I report on a field experiment (144 job-seekers and their...
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, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive … association with physical and mental health. Periods characterized by worse economic conditions (2013-2014 versus 2018 …
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, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …
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We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …
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The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …
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discrimination and deteriorations in both general and mental health for Black individuals. Moreover, it was found that during the … cost-of-living crisis period, i.e., 2022-2023, discrimination was more adversely related to general and mental health … experienced higher levels of discrimination and reduced general and mental health compared to reference groups. The findings of …
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heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job satisfaction … also that women are more satisfied with their jobs than men are, regardless of health status. Moreover, the estimations … show that health impaired employees' job satisfaction is affected more than healthy employees' job satisfaction by adverse …
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-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … deterioration of mental health during the 2008-2009 period compared with the 2010-2013 period, i.e., a period in which the country …'s unemployment doubled as a consequence of the financial crisis. Unemployment seems to be more detrimental to health/mental health in …
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physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings indicate that workers with no written …/or threats in their present job experience worse physical health and increased levels of depression. The study found that the … without a job contract might experience a high degree of workplace precariousness and exclusion from health benefits and …
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