The article is a non-technical summary of the results of the project "The Impact of Unemployment on Health", which links health to the employment history of the entire Slovenian workforce. The results confirm the causal impact of unemployment on health: we find that unemployment significantly increases the probability of death due to cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders, as well as death of any cause, again often with the effects stretching over a 15-year horizon. We also note that the prevalence of the studied groups of diseases is much lower for higher educated groups, especially after the age of 40. The study also identifies the link between the precariousness of work as identified by fixed-term employment and the incidence of the studied groups of diseases.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 62562051Many studies show the need to increase the level of labor activity among the elderly in Slovenia. Using matched employer-employee data coupled with detailed longitudinal administrative health records, we explored the prevalence of three categories of diseases – cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes mellitus, and mental health diseases – across worker and firm characteristics for the entire population of Slovenia using data for 2015. For each of these disease groups, we examined three indicators of health – sick leave, hospitalizations, and prescription drug issuance. We show that higher levels of education and lower age are associated with better health across all our indicators. Larger firms are generally associated with higher rates of sick-leave attributable to work-related injuries, mental health diseases and CVDs, and the prevalence of mental diseases is higher in non-profitable companies.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1024342062The presentation summarizes the analysis of Slovenia’s four key active labour market programmes (ALMPs): institutional training, on-the-job training, wage subsidies and public works. The analysis uses administrative data based on linking work and health history of the entire national workforce with data on ALMP participation during 2009-2014. First, it summarizes the evaluation of labor market outcomes of the studied ALMPs, presenting their effectiveness in terms of placing program participants to jobs and increasing their post-unemployment earnings and improving job quality. Second, based on the comparison with long-term unemployed who do not participate in ALMPs, it presents the results of Cox proportional hazard models evaluating the effects of ALMP participation on a variety of health outcomes – the hazard of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders and hospitalizations caused by these diseases. Preliminary results show positive effects of ALMPs on health outcomes after enrolment in ALMP programs.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 60157955The article is a non-technical summary of the results of an extensive research into the effects of the increase of the minimum wage from March 2010, based on data on all employed and unemployed workers in Slovenia. The article shows that in the period 2010-2013, the probability of employment of workers who were "directly affected" by the increase in the minimum wage decreased more than for workers who were not included in this group, and that the share of low-paid workers in the total employment decreased by about 3 percentage points compared to the period before the increase in the minimum wage.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 1540045252