Harsh times: do stressors lead to labor market losses?

Autor: Petri Böckerman, Terhi Maczulskij
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Employment
Male
Labour economics
medicine.medical_specialty
Work
stressful life events
Economics
Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Health Behavior
Life Change Events
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
health behavior
Marital problems
0502 economics and business
elämänmuutokset
Economics
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Registries
050207 economics
Sex Distribution
Finland
kaksostutkimus
ansiotaso
Health economics
050208 finance
Earnings
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Public health
Stressor
05 social sciences
työllisyys
stressi
Twin study
Shock (economics)
twin studies
Socioeconomic Factors
terveyskäyttäytyminen
8. Economic growth
stressors
Income
Female
0305 other medical science
earnings
Models
Econometric
Stress
Psychological
Public finance
Zdroj: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care. 20(3)
ISSN: 1618-7601
Popis: This paper examines the links between stressful life events and labor market outcomes. We use twin data for Finnish men and women combined with register-based individual information on earnings, employment and social income transfers. The twin data allow us to account for shared environmental and genetic confounders. We measure the exposure to stressful life events in 1990. The labor market outcomes are measured during a 20-year follow-up over the period 1990–2009. Three findings stand out. First, stressors lead to worse labor market outcomes. Second, both men and women are distressed by labor market shocks, but they respond differently to marital problems and health shocks within the family. For example, women respond to marital problems by working more, whereas men respond similarly after facing a random health shock within the family. Third, the relationship between health shocks and labor market outcomes diminishes as time passes, whereas the consequences of labor market shocks are more permanent. peerReviewed
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