Is healthcare employment recession proof? We examine the hypothesis that healthcare employment is stable across the … employment responds to recessions, and show that this response depends largely on the type of the exogenous shock triggering the … recession. We find that healthcare employment responds procyclically to demand-induced recessions; and the reduction is driven …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

in other sectors of the economy, based on data from the USA since 1985. Employment in medical services grew, but did not …This article explores the relationships between the growth in the medical workforce in an aging society and employment … displace employment in other sectors uniformly. Instead, regression analysis shows that medical workforce growth produced …