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It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …
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Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition …-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in Spain using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Living … Conditions (SILC) for the period 2004-2012. We find a modest rise in health inequality by income in Spain in the five years of …
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We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …
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We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about...
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This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The...
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to take more precautionary actions than small firms because they havemore attention for work- and health-related topics …
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