Prospects of returning to work after lumbar spine surgery for patients considering disability pension: a nationwide study based on data from the Norwegian Registry for Spine Surgery. [PDF]
Occup Environ Med, 2023 Hammer L +6 more
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Fiscal policy and economic activity: new causal evidence
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Utilizing a quasi‐natural experiment design, we identify an exogenous cut in local taxes accompanied by an equivalent reduction in local government spending, and we estimate the impact of these exogenous changes on income. We exploit a unique regional dataset that combines local income data with local voting outcomes on current expense tax ...
David M. Brasington, Marios Zachariadis
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Time until exit from paid work after ages 65-69 and ≥ 70, respectively: importance of prior sickness absence and disability pension. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthMartikainen A +3 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aging population in OECD countries and the rising mental disorder burden highlight the need to understand statutory retirement's contribution to emotional well‐being. However, the relationship between statutory retirement and emotional well‐being remains underexplored.
Emmi‐Susanna Katajapuu +4 more
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“General Interest” Group or “Special Interest” Group? Understanding Nonworker Support for Unions
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The labor movement has mounted a comeback in recent years, with breakthrough organizing and strikes at employers including Starbucks, Amazon, UPS, and the major automakers. The continuation of this trend, which could help stem rising economic inequality, may depend partly on how successful unions are at rallying public support. Yet this may be
Katherine Copas, Teke Wiggin
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Sickness absence and disability pension trajectories in childhood cancer survivors and references- a Swedish prospective cohort study. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Baecklund F +3 more
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Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Involuntary Singlehood in the Age of Online Dating*
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.Although singlehood is a desired lifestyle for an increasing number of heterosexual women and men, many are involuntarily single, struggling to find a partner. Meanwhile, popular debates about dating are sharply polarized along gendered lines. While “incels” see themselves as victims on a dating market ruled by women, relatively mainstreamed feminist ...
Lena Gunnarsson +2 more
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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers? [PDF]
Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points among ...
Josef Zweimüller, Stefan Staubli
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Sick leave and disability pension in a cohort of TMD-patients - The Swedish National Registry Studies for Surgically Treated TMD (SWEREG-TMD). [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Salinas Fredricson A +8 more
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many third‐sector organisations (TSOs) deliver employability support for vulnerable groups, but can they address the quality of jobs their users enter? The question is timely in the UK, given structural constraints presented by its neoliberal labour market/welfare regime and the recently elected Labour Government's aim of moving job centres ...
Jonathan Payne +2 more
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