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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …
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Introduction: The World Health Report 2006 defined 'availability', 'competence', 'responsiveness' and 'productivity' as … health worker well-being. Conceptually, productivity is broadened to reflect a more nuanced understanding of efficiency … the key dimensions of the health workforce (HWF) performance framework. Since then, new goals have been set to address …
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introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …
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Population ageing in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, many argue that this age … combines the 7th wave of the SHARE panel data on health at an older age and US occupational O*NET data. With these unique data … it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key …
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, comparable panel evidence available in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). It considers both physical … effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al … in similar health/with equal cognitive performance. Contrary to existing papers, this one uses international, European …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on workplace safety for a variety of reasons. Discomfort and reduced concentration caused by heat can lead to workers making mistakes and injuring themselves. Discomfort can also be an incentive for workers to report an injury that they would not have...
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities because workers may experience difficulties concentrating or have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of professional tennis players in outdoor singles matches in...
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