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presenteeism are person-related (e.g. individuals' health or job attitude) or work-related (e.g. job demands and constraints on … absence from work). Working when sick can have positive and negative consequences for workers' performance and health, but it …
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developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer …We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …
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We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...
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correlated to public mobility, which plays the leading role behind the rhythm of contagion. Our findings are particularly …
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of risk. Social security has an effect on a number of different areas, including health, education, housing, and income … suffering from heavy health expenditures. …
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are needed to reduce this inequality, as it is only partially compensated for by the existing social security systems. To … the inequality in the short term, private co-payments should be decreased and made more dependent on disposable income …. Abolishing the private system in favor of a single-payer health care system covering all residents would be effective as well, as …
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Ärmere Personen haben eine deutlich geringere Lebenserwartung als Personen mit höheren Einkommen. Dieser Wochenbericht zeigt auf Basis der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, dass sie zudem häufiger und früher pflegebedürftig werden. Gleiches gilt für Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen im...
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Using two novel online surveys collected in May and November 2020, we study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish households. We document a large and negative effect on household income. By May 2020, the average individual lived in a household that had lost 16% of their...
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People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The … model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks … employees and an extended expectation-maximization algorithm. Simulations suggest that health shocks induce average losses in …
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