To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British …-employment due to suffering from cancer. We study the effect of cancer experiences on the recruiters' hiring decisions, as well as …. We find that employment opportunities are lower for candidates with a history of cancer, compared to candidates without …

consequences of health shocks or the mechanisms behind the spillover effects. We analyse the short- and long-term effects of cancer … breadwinner type). We use full population register data on all cancer patients and their cohabiting partners in Finland over the … period 1995-2019. Our identification strategy is based on the quasi-random variation in the timing of the cancer diagnosis …

This study represents a new way of looking at health, by investigating the effect of aggregate cancer incidence rates … study, cancer was selected as an approximation of labour force health, given its ability to capture a range of lifestyle … choices. Workers afflicted by cancer often face three choices: continue working, temporarily/permanently leave employment or …

. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer …

quality managers in hospitals that provide specialized cancer care in Germany. In an inductive grounded theory approach, we …

-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better …

. This study examines if the annual quarter within which a patient is diagnosed with cancer has an impact on the OOP costs … the timing of cancer diagnosis has a significant impact on OOP costs. Specifically, patients diagnosed in the fourth … year. This pattern persists after controlling for different types of cancer and different stages of cancer and robustness …

of a high-need patient group: people diagnosed with cancer. The Australian system for these services is predominantly … costs for patients in the 12 months following on cancer diagnosis and find a large variation in these costs according to the …