Journal Article
A prospective analysis of labour market status and self-rated health in the UK and Russia
Authors
Publication date
Apr 2015
Summary
Comparing prospective data from the UK and Russia, this paper analyzes
whether the association of labour market status, and particularly
unemployment, with subsequent health varies by the level of state
protection provided to the unemployed. While the UK's unemployment
welfare regime is classified as providing minimal protection, the
Russian regime is sub-protective. Employing Cox duration analysis upon
data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey and the British
Household Panel Survey for the period 2000–2007, this study finds that
labour market status and economic circumstances independently predicted
individual-level declines in self-rated health and, contrary to
expectations, the associations of unemployment with health decline were
similarly sized in the two countries.
Published in
Economics of Transition
Volume and page numbers
23 , 343 -370
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12065
ISSN
16
Subjects
Labour Market, Unemployment, Welfare Benefits, and Health
Links
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