Is healthcare employment recession proof? We examine the hypothesis that healthcare employment is stable across the … employment responds to recessions, and show that this response depends largely on the type of the exogenous shock triggering the … recession. We find that healthcare employment responds procyclically to demand-induced recessions; and the reduction is driven …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …

improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …

The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women … Online durchgeführten Covid-19-Zusatzbefragung für Deutschland untersuchen wir den Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsbedingungen … Rückgang des Wohlbefindens von Frauen kann jedoch nicht mit systematischen Unterschieden in den Arbeitsbedingungen während der …