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Accommodating Employees with Disabilities : The Role of Flexible Employment Schemes in Europe
Giovanis, Eleftherios - 2019
Over the past 30 years, the workplace has witnessed significant changes. The fast growth in the use of information technology, changes in working hours and agreements radically changed the nature of job. One such change is the flexible employment schemes, which can provide alternatives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864225
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Housing and health
Angel, Stefan - 2014
Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by which housing deprivation affects health, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416204
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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health: disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517010
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health : Disentangling Crucial Channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233703
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The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health: disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507046
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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287319
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Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Constant, Amelie; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265276
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Rising Child Poverty in Europe : Mitigating the Scarring from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques; Vassileva, Iglika; Chen, Tingyun - 2023
Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344162
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Evaluating Social Investment in Disability Policy : Impact of Measures for Activation, Support, and Facilitation on Employment of Disabled Persons in 22 European Countries
Reinders Folmer, Chris; Mascini, Peter; Van der Veen, Romke - 2021
Disability policy in European countries is displaying a shift towards social investment: increasing human capital and access to the labour market. The reasoning that underlies this transition is that disabled persons would benefit from mainstream employment, but are impeded in traditional policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322938
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Sympathy for the devil? : exploring flexicurity win-win promises
Pedraza, Pablo de; Álvarez-Díaz, Marcos; Dominguez … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-26
more generous welfare system contributed to reducing poverty. Employment security, however, appears to be linked to the …
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