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Do minimum wages improve self-rated health? Evidence from a natural experiment
Hafner, Lucas; Lochner, Benjamin - 2019
In this paper we analyze whether the introduction of the general minimum wage in Germany in 2015 had an effect on workers' self-rated health. To study this question, we use survey-data linked to administrative employment records and apply difference-in-difference regressions combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111685
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Do minimum wages improve self-rated health? Evidence from a natural experiment
Hafner, Lucas; Lochner, Benjamin - In: Empirical Economics 62 (2021) 6, pp. 2989-3014
We analyze whether the introduction of the general minimum wage in Germany in 2015 had an effect on workers’ self-rated health. To this end, we use survey data linked to administrative employment records and apply difference-in-differences regressions combined with propensity score matching....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014497567
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Do minimum wages improve self-rated health? : evidence from a natural experiment
Hafner, Lucas; Lochner, Benjamin - 2019
In this paper we analyze whether the introduction of the general minimum wage in Germany in 2015 had an effect on workers' self-rated health. To study this question, we use survey-data linked to administrative employment records and apply difference-in-difference regressions combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052239
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Income Inequality and Self-Rated Health Status: Evidence from the European Community Household Panel
Hildebrand, Vincent; Kerm, Philippe Van - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2005
We examine the effect of income inequality on individual self-rated health status in a pooled sample of 10 member … information, we avoid several of the pitfalls suffered by earlier studies on this topic. We calculate income inequality indices … measured at two standard levels of geography (NUTS-0 and NUTS-1) and find consistent evidence that income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763287
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Ethnic Differences in Health: Does Immigration Status Matter?
Kobayashi, Karen M.; Prus, Steven; Lin, Zhiqiu - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2008
This study examines health differences between first-generation immigrant and Canadian-born persons who share the same the ethnocultural origin, and the extent to which such differences reflect social structural and health-related behavioural contexts. Data from the 2000/2001 Canadian Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763309
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Income-related health inequality in Portugal
Veiga, Paula - Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada … - 2005
Doorslaer and Koolman (2004)]. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the degree of income-related inequality in self … applies the methods developed by Wagstaff and Van Doorslaer (1994) to measure the degree of income-related inequality in self … estimates for income related inequality suggest that Portugal in 1998/1999 ranks in the middle of the European countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005551520
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Ethnicity and Health: An Analysis of Physical Health Differences across Twenty-one Ethnocultural Groups in Canada
Prus, Steven; Lin, Zhiqiu - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2005
The study of health differences across a wide-range of ethnic, racial, and cultural groups has received relatively little attention in the literature. Twenty-one ethnocultural groups are examined in the current study, providing one of the most comprehensive analyses to-date on ethnicity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635235
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing environmental policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that negotiated rulemaking...
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Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
Mullins, Jamie; White, Corey - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
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Providers, Peers and Patients: How do Physicians' Practice Environments Affect Patient Outcomes?
Avdic, Daniel; Ivets, Maryna; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021
We study the extent to which physician treatment styles are determined by their practice environment and whether such … (i) moving cardiologists' stent choices rapidly adapt to their new practice environment after relocation; (ii) practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000593