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Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run

Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klaer, Erik - 2009

According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into question recently (Baker et al 2005, Baccaro and Rei...

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Unemployment, measured and perceived decline of economic resources: Contrasting three measures of recessionary hardships and their implications for adopting negative health behavio...

Kalousova, Lucie; Burgard, Sarah A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 106 (2014) C, pp. 28-34

adopt new negative health behaviors, specifically cigarette smoking, harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption, or marijuana … consumption. We find that, net of controls and the other two recessionary hardships, unemployment experience was associated with …

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The importance of full-time work for urban adults' mental and physical health

Rosenthal, Lisa; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Earnshaw, Valerie A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 9, pp. 1692-1696

physical activity, and amount of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Depression significantly mediated the association … depression. Health damaging behaviors like unhealthy eating, smoking, and alcohol use may be used to cope, contributing to …

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The length of unemployment predicts mortality, differently in men and women, and by cause of death: A six year mortality follow-up of the Swedish 1992–1996 recession

Garcy, Anthony M.; Vågerö, Denny - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 12, pp. 1911-1920

attributable to a positive, linear increase in the hazard of alcohol disease-related mortality and external causes-of-death not …. However, the underlying pattern differed by cause-of-death. The cancer, circulatory, and alcohol disease-related analyses …

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