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Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss
Eliason, Marcus - 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a...
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Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health : nonparametric evidence from four countries
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts … fairly weak and partially testable assumptions, our paper shows that unemployment has a significant negative effect on mental … short periods of unemployment. Public policy should hence focus on early prevention of mental health problems among the …
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Union Wage and Job Loss : A Cross-national Comparison
Wang, Xiupeng - 2020
What members do unions protect? This question is relevant to an ongoing debate about union wage distribution. This paper investigates how unionization affects the relationship between involuntary job loss and a worker's unobservable ability. Taking advantage of detailed micro-level panel data...
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Reconsidering the Cost of Job Loss : Evidence from Redundancies and Mass Layoffs
Cederlöf, Jonas - 2021
Sweden. Matching data on individual layoff notifications to administrative records, I find that permanent earnings losses are …
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Talking therapy : impacts of a nationwide mental health service in England
Oparina, Ekaterina; Krekel, Christian; Srisuma, Sorawoot - 2024
Common mental health problems impose significant costs on individuals and societies, yet healthcare systems often overlook them. We provide the first causal evidence on the effectiveness of a pioneering, nationwide mental health service for treating depression and anxiety disorders in England...
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Equality of opportunity and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and inequalities in household income, physical and mental health. We estimate fixed effects models...
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Redundancy, layoffs and plant closures : their character, causes and consequences
1986
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Unions and plant closings in Britain : new evidence from the 1990/98 WERS
Addison, John T.; Heywood, John S.; Wei, Xinangdong - 2001
In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to both recent U.S. research and British work using information from the earlier workplace surveys, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001665454
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Unions and Plant Closings in Britain : New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS
Addison, John T.; Heywood, John S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2021
In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to both recent U.S. research and British work using information from the earlier workplace surveys, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320818
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The scarring effect of unemployment throughout adulthood on psychological distress at age 50: Estimates controlling for early adulthood distress and childhood psychological factors
Daly, M.; Delaney, L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 80 (2013) C, pp. 19-23
Unemployment is an established predictor of psychological distress. Despite this robust relationship, the long …-term impact of unemployment on human welfare has been examined in relatively few studies. In this investigation we test the … association between the life-time duration of unemployment over a 34 year period from 1974 to 2008 and psychological distress at …
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