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Title Health and labor markets / edited by Solomon W. Polachek, and Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019
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Series Research in labor economics, 0147-9121 ; volume 47
Research in labor economics ; v. 47. 0147-9121
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 27, 2019)
Subject Health insurance.
Labor market.
Employment (Economic theory)
employing.
Labour economics.
Business & Economics -- Labor.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
Health insurance
Labor market
Form Electronic book
Author Polachek, S. W., editor
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos, editor
ISBN 9781789738612
178973861X
9781789738636
1789738636