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Immigration, unemployment and growth in the host country : bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis on OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2011

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for...

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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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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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Can immigrants insure against shocks as well as the native-born?

Islam, Asadul; Stillman, Steven; Worswick, Christopher - 2016

The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal data from the Household Income Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey...

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Consumption and savings with unemployment risk : implications for optimal employment contracts

Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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