Employment propensity: The roles of mental and physical health

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This paper presents an investigation into the impacts of mental and physical health on the propensity to be employed. Health status is parameterised using three physical and three mental health indicators. After controlling for various socioeconomic factors, the application of limited dependent variable regression techniques generates results which indicate that activity-limiting physical health and accomplishment-limiting mental health issues significantly affect the propensity to be employed. Further investigations reveal gender and ethnicity divides and that health is exogenous to employment status.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 2011/01

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination: Other ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: Mental health ; Physical health ; Employment status ; Ethnicity ; Gender

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pacheco, Gail ; Webber, Don J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• (where): Auckland
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242503
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET