TY - BOOK ID - 57014394 TI - Health and labor markets AU - Polachek, Solomon W. AU - Tatsiramos, Konstantinos PY - 2019 VL - 47 SN - 9781789738629 9781789738612 9781789738636 178973861X 1789738636 1789738628 1789738644 PB - United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Labour economics KW - Hygiene. Public health. Protection KW - Health insurance KW - Labor market KW - Medical economics KW - Labor economics KW - Medical policy KW - Industrial hygiene KW - Sick leave KW - Economic aspects KW - Employees KW - Market, Labor KW - Supply and demand for labor KW - Markets KW - Health plans, Prepaid KW - Insurance, Health KW - Medical care, Prepaid KW - Medical insurance KW - Prepaid health plans KW - Prepaid medical care KW - Sickness insurance KW - Insurance KW - Ambulance service KW - Health care reform KW - Home care services KW - Hospitals KW - Medically uninsured persons KW - Surgical clinics KW - Supply and demand KW - Prospective payment KW - Emergency services KW - Outpatient services KW - Rehabilitation services KW - E-books KW - Labor market. KW - Health insurance. KW - Business & Economics KW - Labour economics. KW - Labor. KW - Medical policy - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:57014394 AB - A country's economic productivity is directly related to the health of its workforce. Thus, how a nation allocates resources to the physical health of its population is of vital importance in establishing the economic well-being of its citizens.This volume contains nine original and innovative articles that investigate the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health and resulting labor market outcomes. Topics include the direct link between employees' health and wages, the employment impact of an unfavorable health shock, the relationship between job insecurity and a worker's mental health, the effect of career disruptions on already chronically ill workers, the consequences of arbitrary health insurance disenrollments, the impact of reducing publically available sick day benefits, the repercussions of increasing employers' sick pay benefits on absenteeism, the relationship between economic conditions and opioid abuse, and the consequences of parental migration on children's health.For researchers and students of labor economics, or anyone interested in understanding how a country's health policies affect its economic productivity, this volume is a fundamental text. ER -