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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …
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, which may be driven exclusively by health factors. Overall, our results suggest that biological factors, as well as work … the enhancement of health and equity at work. Improved social and workplace policies to mitigate the double burden of work …
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, but not those directly exposed to infections (the health industry is not subject to lockdown). Most workers who can …
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We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...
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We analyse the impact of harmonising workplace health and safety laws in Australia on workplace injury and disease by … improving workplace health and safety. Subgroup analysis suggests the high-risk construction industry had a larger and more …
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This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries - El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
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While the 1995 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH) regulation transformed the outlook on workplaces in Spain …
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The aim of this paper is to estimate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wage polarization in Italy, combining individual characteristics with their task content in terms of physical proximity within the workplace. We use an innovative dataset which combines data from two sample surveys,...
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From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and … provides more workplace health promotion than required by law. This result also holds in a recursive bivariate probit … competition, we find a positive association between works councils and workplace health promotion for the various types of …
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affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to cope with stress, optimism about the future, self-reported health …, hormone therapy, surgical treatments, high-quality surgical techniques, adequate preparation and mental health support before … political rights in health care, employment, housing and legal systems, gendered spaces, and internalization of stigma can …
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