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environment affect workers' perceived job security, and the impact of job security on measures of mental and physical health. To … identify these effects, we exploit variation in world commodity prices over the period 2001–15, and analyse 15 waves of … individual-level panel data that includes unusually detailed classifications of mining workers. We find that commodity price …
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subjective indicators reveal differences in satisfaction with household income, health, and childcare. In contrast, job …, 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, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age …
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, 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, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …
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This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the labour market security dimension of the OECD’s job quality framework, thereby complementing the analysis in Chapter 3 of the OECD Employment Outlook 2014 and Chapter 5 of the OECD Employment Outlook 2015. It makes three main contributions....
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While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a … more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration … study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose …
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While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a … more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration … study the nature of the relationship between poor health and non-employment on a sample of German men aged 30-59. We propose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635215
educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … the labor market integration of people with health limitations provide a particularly promising avenue to increase labor … force participation rates and thus help to address the challenges posed by demographic aging. If the health gap in …
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led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect of instability on health in general, and … particularly, mental health. We provide new evidence on this, focusing on an extreme form of precarious employment that has grown …-lasting health problem than workers employed on other types of contract. In particular, reported levels of mental ill health are …
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Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more than 64 percent of the variation in life expectancy. The Preston curve...
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. The paper tries to highlight major trends shaping the world of work in developed economies with the aim of giving a …
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