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UNINA9910793632203321 |
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Health and labor markets / / edited by Solomon W. Polachek, and Konstantinos Tatsiramos |
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United Kingdom : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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ISBN |
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1-78973-861-X |
1-78973-863-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Collana |
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Research in labor economics, , 0147-9121 ; ; volume 47 |
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Health insurance |
Labor market |
Business & Economics - Labor |
Labour economics |
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Monografia |
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Prelims -- Health and the wage rate: cause, effect, both, or neither? New evidence on an old question -- Women's labor market participation after an adverse health event -- Job insecurity and older workers' mental health in the United States -- Diabetes morbidity after displacement -- The effect of disenrollment from Medicaid on employment, insurance coverage, and health and health care utilization -- The incentive effects of sickness absence compensation analysis of a natural experiment in eastern Europe -- The role of employer-provided sick pay in Britain and Norway -- Us employment and opioids: is there a connection? -- Parental migration decisions and child health outcomes: evidence from China. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of its population is of vital importance in establishing the economic well-being of its citizens.This volume contains nine original and innovative articles that investigate the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health and resulting labor market outcomes. Topics include the direct link between employees' health and |
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wages, the employment impact of an unfavorable health shock, the relationship between job insecurity and a worker's mental health, the effect of career disruptions on already chronically ill workers, the consequences of arbitrary health insurance disenrollments, the impact of reducing publically available sick day benefits, the repercussions of increasing employers' sick pay benefits on absenteeism, the relationship between economic conditions and opioid abuse, and the consequences of parental migration on children's health.For researchers and students of labor economics, or anyone interested in understanding how a country's health policies affect its economic productivity, this volume is a fundamental text. |
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