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Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...
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Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417527
to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in unemployment in the short run, with an …. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in …, sex, and cause of death collected for the years 1979-2017, we find no relationship between unemployment and mortality on …
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.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i ….e., switching from salaried employment to unemployment). Meanwhile, leaving self-employment has no consequences for selfreported …
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.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i ….e., switching from salaried employment to unemployment). Meanwhile, leaving self-employment has no consequences for selfreported …
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(i.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a … salaried job (i.e., switching from salaried employment to unemployment). Meanwhile, leaving self-employment has no consequences …
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It is now a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the...
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In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
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the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …
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In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343554