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Organized labor and depression in Europe : making power explicit in the political economy of health
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Abstract
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| Despite engagement with the construct of power relations, research on the political economy of health has largely overlooked organized labor as a determinant of well-being. Grounded in the theory of power resources, our study aims to fill this gap by investigating the link between country-level union density and mental health while accounting for the compositional effects of individual-level union membership. We use three waves of the European Social Survey (N = 52,737) and a variation on traditional random-effects models to estimate both the contextual and change effects of labor unions on depressive symptoms. We find that country-level union density is associated with fewer depressive symptoms and that this is true irrespective of union membership. We discuss our findings vis-a-vis the literatures on the political economy of health, power resources, and fundamental causes of disease. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of health and social behavior. - Albany, N.Y., 1967, currens
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Publication
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Thousand oaks
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Sage publications inc
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2020
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ISSN
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0022-1465
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2150-6000
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DOI
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10.1177/0022146520945047
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Volume/pages
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p. 1-17
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Article Reference
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0022146520945047
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ISI
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000557432400001
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Pubmed ID
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32772576
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Medium
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E-only publicatie
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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