The Role of Women in Rebuilding the Russian Economy

Fong, Monica S.

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“…One potential explanation is that men may work in more physically demanding occupations, so it may be more difficult for them to continue working compared to women, when their health deteriorates. It may also be the case that women in the FSU may in general feel more responsible for supporting household welfare than men [40,41], and thus may choose to continue working even in poor health. More detailed survey data and/or qualitative analysis would be required to allow us to explain this difference.…”

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The effect of health on labour supply in nine former Soviet Union countries

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This paper examines for the first time the consequences of ill health on labour supply for a sample of nine countries from the former Soviet Union (FSU), using a unique multicountry household survey specifically designed for this region. We control for a wide range of individual, household, and community factors, using both standard regression techniques and instrumental variable estimation to address potential endogeneity. Specifically, we find in our baseline ordinary least squares specification that poor health is associated with a decrease in the probability of working of about 13 %. Controlling for community-level unobserved variables slightly increases the magnitude of this effect, to about 14 %. Controlling for endogeneity with the instrumental variable approach further supports this finding, with the magnitude of the effect ranging from 12 to 35 %. Taken together, our findings confirm the cost that the still considerable adult health burden in the FSU is imposing on its population, not only in terms of the disease burden itself, but also in terms of individuals' labour market participation, as well as potentially in terms of increased poverty risk. Other things being equal, this would increase the expected "return on investment" to be had from interventions aimed at improving health in this region.

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“…The social and health consequences of transition were a considerable growth in poverty and a significant, sudden rise in mortality and morbidity (31). While prior to the transition the people of these countries withstood many disadvantages such as poor lifestyles, poor nutritional habits, and vast environmental degradation, factors that intensified and were followed by major psychosocial stress in the context of failure to adapt to reforms, nutritional imbalances, low hygienic standards, and a breakdown in health services (32,33). Fertility rates declined or stagnated, many countries recorded increasing infant mortality rates, and the crude death rates increased in most of the countries.…”

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Ethics and Allocation of Health Resources: The Influence of Poverty on Health

Taipale

1999

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Poverty and health are examined from the global and Nordic perspectives. The data from global social policy research, Nordic comparisons and equity in health research provide a basis for the discussion. At the global level the consequences of poverty are growing and the resultant problems posed are becoming increasingly evident. Poverty and sickness are interwoven; poverty aggravates mental problems, a situation regarding which we have seen steady deterioration. Research suggests that social cohesion, the factor that creates social capital and empowerment in societies, is a major factor that promotes health and the economy. Structural measures to combat poverty would require a global social policy: global redistribution, global regulation and global provision. However, the international community is not yet fully prepared for this discussion. At the Nordic level, Finland is a laboratory in which the viability of the welfare state has been tested in the worst recession ever to hit an OECD country. On the whole, it seems that income disparity has not grown during the recession and that services have functioned moderately well despite budget cuts. However, during that period the correlation between unemployment and sickness became apparent, and the challenges to healthcare more evident. We must make headway in untangling these relationships, because the tendency towards greater income disparity is growing in the post-recession boom. At the social welfare and health service level even the Nordic welfare states are not in full command of the means to alleviate poverty and its related health problems. Has the time come to dispel our Nordic arrogance and look at how the present services may in fact be generating inequity?

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“…Učinci tih potpora na udjel u radnoj snazi očituju se zato što struktura i financiranje obiteljske potpore čine dio politike tržišta rada (Fong, 1993). Posebno potpora poput olakšica oko skrbi o djeci može pomoći da se održava udjel žena u radnoj snazi.…”

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Obiteljske naknade i pomoć siromašnima u srednjoj i istočnoj Europi (II

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The Role of Women in Rebuilding the Russian Economy

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

The effect of health on labour supply in nine former Soviet Union countries

The effect of health on labour supply in nine former Soviet Union countries

Ethics and Allocation of Health Resources: The Influence of Poverty on Health

Obiteljske naknade i pomoć siromašnima u srednjoj i istočnoj Europi (II

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