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The Effect of Job Loss on Health: Evidence from Biomarkers
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen; Hurd, Michael D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
even stronger estimates of the effect of layoffs on health as measured from biomarkers, in particular for glycosylated …The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods …
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The Effect of Job Loss on Health: Evidence from Biomarkers
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen; Hurd, Michael - Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les … - 2014
even stronger estimates of the effect of layoffs on health as measured from biomarkers, in particular for glycosylated …The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Re- tirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093879
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Care and the Capability of Living a Healthy Life in a Gender Perspective
Addabbo, Tindara; Fuscaldo, Marco; Maccagnan, Anna - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012
context. The increasing ageing of Italian population and the higher likelihood for elderly to experience poorer health … healthy life taking a gender perspective. To measure the latter we use both self assessed health status and objective … gerontological measures of health conditions available in the Italian sample of the Survey of Health, Ageing, Retirement in Europe …
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Physical limitations, depressive symptoms and cognitive problems: exploring the complex structure of un-health among older people in Italy
Fuscaldo, Marco - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2012
Although health has always been a multidimensional concept, the research on older peoplefs health has been mostly … associations among different indicators of older peoplefs un]health in Italy. In order to reach this purpose, the work uses the … Italian panel of the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and explores the associations among a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575541
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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
S. Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185412
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Socioeconomic and age gradients of health of Indian adults: an assessment of self-reported and performance-based measures of health
Arokiasamy, Perianayagam; Uttamacharya, Uttamacharya; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
health measure but with considerable heterogeneity across age groups. SES relationship with biomarkers (hypertension and COPD …Objectives: This paper describes the age patterns of socioeconomic gradients of health of Indian adults for multiple … health indicators encompassing the multidimensional nature of health. Methods: Cross-sectional data on 11,230 Indians aged 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112958
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Diferencias departamentales en las causas de mortalidad en Colombia
Otero, Andrea - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2013
The main mortality causes for Colombia in 2010 are in the direction of the phenomenon known as Epidemiologic Transition. Among these we can find neoplasms and heart diseases as the factors with highest death incidence. Physical aggressions and homicides also cause a large number of deaths in the...
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The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900
Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Fuchs, Victor R.; Cullen, Mark R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances …
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Fair retirement under risky lifetime
FLEURBAEY, Marc; LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PESTIEAU, Pierre; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013
A premature death unexpectedly brings a life and a career to their end, leading to substantial welfare losses. We study the retirement decision in an economy with risky lifetime, and compare the laissez-faire with egalitarian social optima. We consider two social objectives: (1) the maximin on...
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