Background A work accident constitutes a shock to health, likely to alter mental states and afect the use of psy‑ chotropic drugs. We focus on the use of benzodiazepines, which are a class of drugs commonly used to treat anxi‑ ety and insomnia. Prolonged use can lead to dependence. Our...

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed and, at the same time, working affects the health...

Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...