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Health, personality disorders, work commitment and training to employment transitions
Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Barabasch, Anton - 2022
This study analyzes the influence of mental and physical health, coping abilities, cooperativeness, and work commitment on the transition from apprenticeship training to a first job. In doing so, we first investigate transitions to regular employment within six months post-graduation. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191867
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Mental health changes and the willingness to take risks
Li, Lu; Richter, Andreas; Steinorth, Petra - In: The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 48 (2021) 1, pp. 31-62
Utilizing the longitudinal SOEP data representative of the German population, we find that mental health shocks significantly decrease the willingness to take risks. We also find that mental health improvements increase the willingness to take risks significantly. Our findings are relevant for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501440
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Health, personality disorders, work commitment and training to employment transitions
Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Barabasch, Anton - 2022
This study analyzes the influence of mental and physical health, coping abilities, cooperativeness, and work commitment on the transition from apprenticeship training to a first job. In doing so, we first investigate transitions to regular employment within six months post-graduation. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814239
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Mental health changes and the willingness to take risks
Li, Lu; Richter, Andreas; Steinorth, Petra - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 48 (2023) 1, pp. 31-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013556550
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Scarred for life? : early-life experience of the post-reunification economic crisis in East Germany and physical and mental health outcomes in early adulthood
Bister, Lara; Spijker, Jeroen Johannes Anthonius; … - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 701-740
Existing research suggests adverse short-term health effects of economic crises during early life, yet, the long-term health effects for children and adolescents exposed to economic crises are still understudied. We investigated the early-adult health implications of experiencing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502926
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Peer Effects on Criminal Behavior. Evidence from the homeless
Corno, Lucia - 2012
homeless people in Milan. Information on friends' names was elicited, which allows to map each respondent's network. Each … individual was also asked to report his criminal status prior to becoming homeless. To estimate the causal effects of network … share of rainy days since the individual has become homeless: rainfall fosters concentration of homeless individuals in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532967
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The Welfare Implications of Addictive Substances: A Longitudinal Study of Life Satisfaction of Drug Users
Moschion, Julie; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017
This paper provides an empirical test of the rational addiction model, used in economics to model individuals' consumption of addictive substances, versus the utility misprediction model, used in psychology to explain the discrepancy between people's decision and their subsequent experiences. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787031
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The health issues of the homeless and the homeless issues of the ill-health
Dai, Li; Zhou, Peng - 2019
In public policy planning and budgeting, the health issues and homeless issues tend to be in-terrelated and reinforced …-related quality of life (EQ-5D) framework and is given to 322 homeless individuals. Evidence shows that, with-out timely support, the … homeless state and health state will fast deteriorate and reinforce each other. It is therefore arguable to broaden the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429992
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Equipping homeless shelter providers with child-centered play therapy skills
Carter, Adam W. - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 19 (2015) 4, pp. 399-408
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397587
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Housing outcomes for homeless individuals in street outreach compared to shelter
Weare, Christopher - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 25 (2021) 6, pp. 543-561
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649672