What is the effect of unemployment on health and health inequality? An investigation of the effect of unemployment using a new decomposition approach
(2017) NEKN06 20171Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This study investigates the effect of unemployment on health and rank-dependent indices of income-related health inequality in Europe during the period 2006-2015, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. I use a recently proposed general method of decomposition and a panel data approach with individual fixed effects, and find a significant negative relationship between unemployment and health and a significant positive relationship between unemployment and income-related health inequality. This study shows that unemployment can have an effect not only on health, as is commonly investigated, but also on income-related health inequalities.
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- author
- Spika, Devon Fontaine LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKN06 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Decomposition, Recentered influence function, Income-related health inequality, Concentration index, Europe
- language
- English
- id
- 8925422
- date added to LUP
- 2017-09-12 15:15:31
- date last changed
- 2017-09-12 15:15:31
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