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the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July 2020). Based on a caseness measure, the prevalence of psychological … of the pandemic (April 2020) other socioeconomic factors declined in their share of socioeconomic inequality, while age …
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This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for … the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic … and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We find that, among rural young teachers, the pandemic has caused higher …
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We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that employment status and work arrangements are … related to higher self-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote …
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Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we construct a measure of adult resilience, document its distribution, and test its predictability by...
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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...
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Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measured hearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing loss on receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing. Our...
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We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …
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This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...
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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
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