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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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The impact of government health and education expenditure on income inequality in European Union
Jianu, Ionuț - 2018
health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124341
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Inequalities in regional excess mortality and life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Krekó, Judit; Tóth, Csaba G. - 2023
. While the life expectancy inequality has returned to its pre-pandemic level in 2022, the observed life expectancy in almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454718
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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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Assessing Inequalities in Preventive Care Use in Europe
Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2013
This paper presents the first cross-country estimation of needs-adjusted income and education-related inequalities in the use of a whole set of preventive care treatments. Analysis is based on the first three waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) for individuals aged 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089935
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Dynamic Changes in Determinants of Inequalities in Health in Europe with Focus on Retired - With Particular Regard to Retired Danes
Christiansen, Terkel - 2017
Earlier studies of health inequality across European countries have shown intriguing results, in particular with … respect to retirement status as one of the determinants of health inequality. A priori, one would expect that inequality in … individuals born in 1954 or earlier (wave 1) and 1960 or earlier (wave 2) from 10 European countries. Income-related inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963499
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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2017
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 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/10012822692
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The TRIPS Agreement Article 73 Security Exceptions and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused Governments to contemplate measures to override patents and other intellectual property rights (IPRs) in order to facilitate production and distribution of vaccines, treatments, diagnostics and medical devices. This paper discusses whether the COVID-19 pandemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824544
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Regulated Competition on Health Insurance Markets : Budget Balancing, Opt-out and Price Caps
Schickner, Benjamin - 2017
This paper studies redistributional effects of competition between private and public insurance on health insurance markets based on the example of Germany. Health insurance is provided by a budget-balancing public insurance and a revenue-maximizing private insurance; customers are characterized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970738