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The labor and health economics of breast cancer
Ahammer, Alexander; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Stiftinger, Flora - 2024
We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6.2 percent lower employment, and a wage penalty of 15...
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Effects of health shocks on adult children's labor market outcomes and well-being
Ramirez Lizardi, Eduardo; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut; … - 2024
Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically stroke and hip fractures, on labor market outcomes and the well-being of adult offspring. We identify small, but statistically significant immediate responses in terms of an...
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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 …
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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
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A sequential model for older workers’ labor transitions after a health shock
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Labeaga, José M.; Prieto, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
In this work we study older workers’ (50—64) labor force transitions after a health/disability shock. We find that the probability of keeping working decreases with both age and severity of the shock. Moreover, we find strong interactions between age and severity in the 50—64 age range and...
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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137003
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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes.
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661885
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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256613
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Stepping forward: Personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
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