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-in-difference (DD) regressions to estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansion on anxiety and depression associated with job loss …. Estimates show that the respondents who live in expansion states are 96.6% (36.3%) more likely to have Medicaid coverage, and … Medicaid is as important (if not more) as the access or utilization to healthcare. The difference …
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …
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certain occupations. We then built indices for whether (1) workers are relatively more exposed to disease, (2) work with … the pandemic was significantly more severe for workers more exposed to disease and workers that work in proximity to …
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We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act - the expansion of Medicaid eligibility - affected health … implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did not, we find that the ACA Medicaid expansion substantially increased …
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The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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exposed to disease, workers that work with proximity to coworkers and workers who can easily work remotely. Our estimates … remotely are less affected. We also find that occupations classifed as more exposed to disease are less affected, possibly due …
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This paper provides a structural analysis of the role of job vacancy referrals (VRs) by public employment agencies in the job search behavior of unemployed individuals, incorporating institutional features of the monitoring of search behavior by the agencies. Notably, rejections of VRs may lead...
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This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10...
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Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental health, as measured by the Mental Component Summary Score from the SF-12. Fixed effects and...
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