Health and labor markets

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Polachek, Solomon W.
• Tatsiramos, Konstantinos

Publisher

Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781789738612

Series

Research in labor economics Vol. 47

Subject(s)

• HEALTH INSURANCE.
• LABOR ECONOMICS
• LABOR MARKET

Notes

• Emerald Business Management and Economics Ebooks 2019

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Abstract

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 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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 310 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

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

Exemplar(s)

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