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We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
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This paper uses the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate the role of pension and … quot;unused capacityquot; in labor force, on pathways to retirement and on the relationship between actual health status …-national differences in work and retirement, while differences in health and demographics play only a minor role …
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This paper shows that gender and regional differences in self-rated health in Europe are partly explained by … causes, which may include differences in reporting own health. We employ the tool of "anchoring vignettes" to understand … whether and how women and men living in different regions differently report levels in a number of health components or …
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To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 … and household services by older natives may help maintain health through a variety of pathways including reduced …
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A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265276
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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I compare education-, income-, and wealth-related health inequality using data from 11 European countries and the US …. The health distributions in the US, England and France are relatively unequal independent of the stratifying variable …
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-reported health outcomes. More specifically, the paper examines whether older workers differ significantly from younger workers … regarding their job-related health risk perception, mental and physical health, sickness absence, probability of reporting … are more likely to perceive work-related health and safety risks, and to report mental, physical and fatigue health …
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