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Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Health, Health Care and Health Financing by Means of Rank-Dependent Indices : A Recipe for Good Practice

Erreygers, Guido; Van Ourti, Tom - 2010

The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality, and the Role of Socio-Economic Status

Cramer, J.S - 2012

The initial purpose of this study was to establish the effect of childhood conditions on longevity from the Brabant data set. This data set combines information at ages 12, 43, 53 and mortality between 53 and 71 for a sample of some 3000 individuals born around 1940 in the Dutch province of...

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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions

Burger, Martijn J.; van der Knaap, Bert; Wall, Ronald S. - 2012

In the modern economy, cities are assumed to be in fierce competition over attracting foreign investments in leading sectors of the world economy. Despite the rich theoretical discourse on these 'wars', it remains unclear which territories are competing with each other over which types of...

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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - 2007

outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …

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Self-Employment around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen A. - 2010

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...

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Temporal, Spatial, Economic and Crime Factors in Illicit Drug Usage Across European Cities

Commandeur, Jacques; Vujic, Suncica; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2014

We analyze the illicit drug usage by inhabitants and visitors of European cities. Our statistical analyses are by means of linear mixed models. The data on illicit drug usage of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and cannabis are collected through wastewater samples from the inlet...

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality, and the Role of Socio-Economic Status

Cramer, Jan S. - 2012

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: First Report

Cramer, J.S. - 2011

The Brabant Data Set, now freely accessible, contains informationon a sample cohort of 3,000 individuals born around 1940 from surveysin 1952, 1983 and 1993, as well as on deaths between 1994 and 2009.In line with numerous epidemiological studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at...

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: Technical Report

Cramer, J.S. - 2011

This technical note consists of three parts. The first describes theorigins of the Brabant data set, the later surveys and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the sample. The third section setsout the proportional...

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