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movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health … income mobility downward movements affect SWB to a greater extent than upward movements, consistent with notions of loss …
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income losses. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of various coping strategies, due to the lockdown … measures, on the respondents’ subjective well-being by gender and ethnic background. We apply a difference … related costs range between £250-3,500, which are significantly varied by gender and ethnic group …
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It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …
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substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …
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U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …-dependent and measure-dependent: income inequality is SWB-diminishing in large regions for all measures, SWB-diminishing in small …
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Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …
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This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …
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the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …
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Health”. For Spain using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), we can confirm there exist … under-healthy people by occupation, age group and sex. Additionally, under-healthy workers are most likely to be found among …
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We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...
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