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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Haan, Peter - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health : An Analysis for Germany Across Generations

Otterbach, Steffen - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection

De Cao, Elisabetta - 2019

We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …

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The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis

Drydakis, Nick - 2015

obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative effects from unemployment on self …-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the …'s unemployment doubled as a consequence of the financial crisis.Unemployment seems to be more detrimental to health/mental health in …

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Poorer Health – Shorter Hours? Health and Flexibility of Hours of Work

Geyer, Johannes - 2010

We analyse the role of health in determining the difference between desired and actual hours of work in a sample of German men using the Socio-Economic Panel Data for years 1996-2007. The effects of both self-assessed health and legal disability status are examined. About 60% of employees report...

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Work Hours Constraints and Health

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - 2013

The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners...

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