Blar i forfatter "Berthung, Espen"

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    • Inequality of opportunity in a land of equal opportunities: The impact of parents' health and wealth on their offspring's quality of life in Norway 

      Berthung, Espen; Gutacker, Nils; Abelsen, Birgit; Olsen, Jan Abel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-06)
      Background: The literature on Inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health distinguishes between circumstances that lie outside of own control vs. eforts that – to varying extents – are within one’s control. From the perspective of IOp, this paper aims to explain variations in individuals’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) by focusing on two separate sets of variables that clearly lie outside ...

    • Three essays on health and labour market participation 

      Berthung, Espen (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-03-23)
      ‘Good health for all’ and ‘employment for all’ are two widely agreed-upon goals in Norwegian politics. Nevertheless, considerable inequalities in health exist, and the economic sustainability of public pensions is pressured by a substantial increase in life expectancy. Improving our understanding of inequalities in health and the relationship between health detriments and labour market participation ...

    • Unemployment rate, Labor-Market and Sickness-absence. How the unemployment affects sickness-absence in Troms County. An empirical analysis 

      Berthung, Espen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-09-03)
      This thesis investigates how the unemployment rate affect the sickness-absence in Troms county. For doing so, we set up a model that investigates the causal relationship between labor market tightness and workers absence behavior and the cyclical selecting of employees with bad health during different states of the business cycle. We take advantage of over 230,000 recorded sickness-absences and ...

    • Who keeps on working? The importance of resilience for labour market participation 

      Berthung, Espen; Gutacker, Nils; Friborg, Oddgeir; Abelsen, Birgit; Olsen, Jan Abel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background<p> <p>It is widely recognized that individuals’ health and educational attainments, commonly referred to as their human capital, are important determinants for their labour market participation (LMP). What is less recognised is the influence of individuals’ latent resilience traits on their ability to sustain LMP after experiencing an adversity such as a health shock.<p> Aim<p> We ...

    • Who keeps on working? The importance of resilience for labour market participation 

      Berthung, Espen; Gutacker, Nils; Friborg, Oddgeir; Abelsen, Birgit; Olsen, Jan Abel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-13)
      <p><i>Background -</i> It is widely recognized that individuals’ health and educational attainments, commonly referred to as their human capital, are important determinants for their labour market participation (LMP). What is less recognised is the influence of individuals’ latent resilience traits on their ability to sustain LMP after experiencing an adversity such as a health shock. <p><i>Aim ...