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Health and home ownership: Findings for the case of Japan
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2015
The research objective of this paper is to test whether health conditions and health behavior are related to home ownership. This question has not yet been examined quantitatively in the existing literature. Our estimation results show that homeowners consistently report better health and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311022
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Health and home ownership : findings for the case of Japan
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2015
The research objective of this paper is to test whether health conditions and health behavior are related to home ownership. This question has not yet been examined quantitatively in the existing literature. Our estimation results show that homeowners consistently report better health and less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509431
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Non-monotonic health behaviours - implications for individual health-related behaviour in a demand-for-health framework
Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
A number of behaviours influence health in a non-monotonic way. Physical activity and alcohol consumption, for instance, may be beneficial to one’s health in moderate but detrimental in large quantities. We develop a demand-for-health framework that incorporates the feature of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019105
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The Influence of Psychological Well-being, Ill Health and Health Shocks on Single Parents' Labour Supply
Duncan, Alan S; Harris, Mark; Harris, Anthony Howard; … - Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin Business School - 2013
This paper proposes a discrete-choice behavioural model of labour supply to examine the role of ill-health on single parents’ employment. The model provides estimates of individual preferences over a given set of labour market states and allows these preferences to be influenced by a measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857778
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Retirement and Unexpected Health Shocks
Apouey, Bénédicte; Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia - 2017
Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816498
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock … suggest that socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks offers one explanation for how the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282303
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Retirement and unexpected health shocks
Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, … - 2017
Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776035
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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock … suggest that socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks offers one explanation for how the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371911
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A cross-country analysis of the risk factors for depression at the micro and macro level
Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2009
Past research has provided evidence of the role of personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few researches examined jointly the impact of each characteristic and whether country attributes change the probability of being depressed. This is due to the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466887
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Are immigrants healthier than native residents?
Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
In common anti-immigrant rhetoric, concerns are raised that immigrants bring diseases with them to the host country that threaten the health of the resident population. In reality, extensive empirical research over several decades and across multiple regions and host countries has documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404935