Jacques Wels
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 352276 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jacques Wels |
| PRENOMES | Jacques |
| SOBRENOME | Wels |
| ASSINATURA | WELS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9292-917X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Religious disparities in mental health
BACKGROUND: Religion is a central aspect of many people's lives worldwide. While most research has concentrated on individual religiosity, less attention has been paid to the broader social and structural dimensions of religious affiliation, particularly how affiliation to minority religious groups influences mental health through experiences of discrimination, marginalisation, and unequal social, economic, and political position. METHODS: We con…
Incidence of reported cases of euthanasia adjusted for demographic composition
Analysis on euthanasia and assisted dying should consider population demographics when addressing incidence amongst populations to better capture age, regional and gender differences
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact
SCOPUS: ed.j
Social dialogue quality and workers’ health as perceived by Belgian trade union representatives during the Covid-19 pandemic
Union representatives were surveyed throughout Belgium between August and December 2021 through an online questionnaire ( N = 469) to assess the relationship between trade union representatives’ perception of social dialogue quality and change in workers’ physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a modified Poisson regression for binary outcomes controlling for company characteristics, pre-pandemic self-reported health and p…
Long Covid and financial outcomes
BACKGROUND: Long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID) include muscle weakness, fatigue, breathing difficulties and sleep disturbance over weeks or months. Using UK longitudinal data, we assessed the relationship between long COVID and financial disruption. METHODS: We estimated associations between long COVID (derived using self-reported length of COVID-19 symptoms) and measures of financial disruption (subjective financial well-being, new bene…
Debt, Credit Payment Holidays, and Their Relationship with Mental Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom
Although the relationship between debt and mental health is well documented, little is known about how changes in debt status and the specific policies implemented to assist borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the mental health of men and women. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of a non-neoliberal “credit payment holiday” scheme during the pandemic in the United Kingdom. Data come from three waves of the Underst…
Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme
During the early stages of the pandemic, those furloughed had increased risk of poor mental and social wellbeing, but furloughed workers fared better than those who became unemployed, suggesting that furlough may have partly mitigated poorer outcomes
Assessing the impact of partial early retirement on self-perceived health, depression level and quality of life in Belgium
For about 20 years, Belgium has successfully implemented working-time reduction policies for the older workforce. However, the impact of such policies on health has not been explored yet. Using longitudinal data from Waves 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (N = 1,498), the paper assesses whether working-time reduction in late career is associated with a change in self-perceived health, depression (EURO-D) an…
The cross‐border portability of social security benefits
The importance of the cross‐border portability of social benefits is increasing in parallel with the rise in the absolute number of international migrants and their share of the world population, and perhaps more importantly with the much higher and rising share of the world population that for some part of their life is working and/or retiring abroad. This article estimates how the rising stock of migrants is distributed over four key portabilit…
The Impact of Extending Working Lives on Youth Employment in Great Britain
The article investigates the association between youth and older workers’ employment participation in the United Kingdom using yearly data provided by the Labor Force Survey. Presenting a short state of the art, the paper shows that, with few exceptions, empirical analyses usually assume that increasing the labor market participation of the older workers does not affect negatively youth employment. Nevertheless, testing several variables and thre…
The role of labour unions in explaining workers' mental and physical health in Great Britain. A longitudinal approach
Assessing the Association between Late Career Working Time Reduction and Retirement Plans. A Cross-National Comparison Using the 2012 Labour Force Survey ad hoc Module
As public policies are focusing on retaining the ageing workforce, flexible working time arrangements in late career have gained visibility over the past decades. However, given the institutional nature of these arrangements, little is known about the extent to which older workers reduce working hours at a cross-country level. Using data from the 2012 Labour Force Survey ad hoc module, the article aims to provide estimates about the number of wor…
The portability of social rights of the United Kingdom with the European Union
The portability of social benefits – such as the state pension, child allowances and unemployment benefits – for international migrants is regulated by social security agreements concluded between countries or at supra-national level, such as within the European Economic Area (EEA). Focusing on the United Kingdom, this article aims at capturing the main issues that have been recently raised by such agreements, with particular emphasis on the case…
The Statistical Analysis of End of Working Life
La transportabilité des prestations de sécurité sociale
Le vieillissement des populations migrantes pose la question de la transportabilité de leurs retraites et de leurs soins de santé entre le ou les pays dans lesquels ils ont acquis leurs droits et leur pays d’origine. Des accords bilatéraux de Sécurité sociale permettent de normaliser la gestion de cette épineuse question du transfert des prestations sociales versées d’un pays à l’autre aux migrants âgés. Une approche comparative entre le Maroc, l…
Le partage d'emploi entre générations. Analyse des effets régulateurs et redistributifs de la réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l'emploi des jeunes
Cet article analyse l’impact des politiques de réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l’emploi des jeunes générations. Dans les années 1970, les sorties précoces de l’emploi des travailleurs âgés se sont développées dans le but de permettre l’entrée à l’emploi des plus jeunes et de réguler le marché du travail. Nous montrons, dans un premier temps, que les enjeux régulateurs et redistributifs de ces politiques se sont affrontés ju…
The Statistical Analysis of End of Working Life
The role of labour unions in explaining workers' mental and physical health in Great Britain. A longitudinal approach
Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme
During the early stages of the pandemic, those furloughed had increased risk of poor mental and social wellbeing, but furloughed workers fared better than those who became unemployed, suggesting that furlough may have partly mitigated poorer outcomes
Le partage d'emploi entre générations. Analyse des effets régulateurs et redistributifs de la réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l'emploi des jeunes
Cet article analyse l’impact des politiques de réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l’emploi des jeunes générations. Dans les années 1970, les sorties précoces de l’emploi des travailleurs âgés se sont développées dans le but de permettre l’entrée à l’emploi des plus jeunes et de réguler le marché du travail. Nous montrons, dans un premier temps, que les enjeux régulateurs et redistributifs de ces politiques se sont affrontés ju…
Assessing the impact of partial early retirement on self-perceived health, depression level and quality of life in Belgium
For about 20 years, Belgium has successfully implemented working-time reduction policies for the older workforce. However, the impact of such policies on health has not been explored yet. Using longitudinal data from Waves 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (N = 1,498), the paper assesses whether working-time reduction in late career is associated with a change in self-perceived health, depression (EURO-D) an…
The cross‐border portability of social security benefits
The importance of the cross‐border portability of social benefits is increasing in parallel with the rise in the absolute number of international migrants and their share of the world population, and perhaps more importantly with the much higher and rising share of the world population that for some part of their life is working and/or retiring abroad. This article estimates how the rising stock of migrants is distributed over four key portabilit…
Assessing the Association between Late Career Working Time Reduction and Retirement Plans. A Cross-National Comparison Using the 2012 Labour Force Survey ad hoc Module
As public policies are focusing on retaining the ageing workforce, flexible working time arrangements in late career have gained visibility over the past decades. However, given the institutional nature of these arrangements, little is known about the extent to which older workers reduce working hours at a cross-country level. Using data from the 2012 Labour Force Survey ad hoc module, the article aims to provide estimates about the number of wor…
Le partage d'emploi entre générations. Analyse des effets régulateurs et redistributifs de la réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l'emploi des jeunes
Cet article analyse l’impact des politiques de réduction du temps de travail en fin de carrière sur l’emploi des jeunes générations. Dans les années 1970, les sorties précoces de l’emploi des travailleurs âgés se sont développées dans le but de permettre l’entrée à l’emploi des plus jeunes et de réguler le marché du travail. Nous montrons, dans un premier temps, que les enjeux régulateurs et redistributifs de ces politiques se sont affrontés ju…
La transportabilité des prestations de sécurité sociale
Le vieillissement des populations migrantes pose la question de la transportabilité de leurs retraites et de leurs soins de santé entre le ou les pays dans lesquels ils ont acquis leurs droits et leur pays d’origine. Des accords bilatéraux de Sécurité sociale permettent de normaliser la gestion de cette épineuse question du transfert des prestations sociales versées d’un pays à l’autre aux migrants âgés. Une approche comparative entre le Maroc, l…
The Statistical Analysis of End of Working Life
Assessing the Association between Late Career Working Time Reduction and Retirement Plans. A Cross-National Comparison Using the 2012 Labour Force Survey ad hoc Module
As public policies are focusing on retaining the ageing workforce, flexible working time arrangements in late career have gained visibility over the past decades. However, given the institutional nature of these arrangements, little is known about the extent to which older workers reduce working hours at a cross-country level. Using data from the 2012 Labour Force Survey ad hoc module, the article aims to provide estimates about the number of wor…
The portability of social rights of the United Kingdom with the European Union
The portability of social benefits – such as the state pension, child allowances and unemployment benefits – for international migrants is regulated by social security agreements concluded between countries or at supra-national level, such as within the European Economic Area (EEA). Focusing on the United Kingdom, this article aims at capturing the main issues that have been recently raised by such agreements, with particular emphasis on the case…
Assessing the impact of partial early retirement on self-perceived health, depression level and quality of life in Belgium
For about 20 years, Belgium has successfully implemented working-time reduction policies for the older workforce. However, the impact of such policies on health has not been explored yet. Using longitudinal data from Waves 5 and 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (N = 1,498), the paper assesses whether working-time reduction in late career is associated with a change in self-perceived health, depression (EURO-D) an…
The cross‐border portability of social security benefits
The importance of the cross‐border portability of social benefits is increasing in parallel with the rise in the absolute number of international migrants and their share of the world population, and perhaps more importantly with the much higher and rising share of the world population that for some part of their life is working and/or retiring abroad. This article estimates how the rising stock of migrants is distributed over four key portabilit…
The Impact of Extending Working Lives on Youth Employment in Great Britain
The article investigates the association between youth and older workers’ employment participation in the United Kingdom using yearly data provided by the Labor Force Survey. Presenting a short state of the art, the paper shows that, with few exceptions, empirical analyses usually assume that increasing the labor market participation of the older workers does not affect negatively youth employment. Nevertheless, testing several variables and thre…
The role of labour unions in explaining workers' mental and physical health in Great Britain. A longitudinal approach
Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme
During the early stages of the pandemic, those furloughed had increased risk of poor mental and social wellbeing, but furloughed workers fared better than those who became unemployed, suggesting that furlough may have partly mitigated poorer outcomes
Debt, Credit Payment Holidays, and Their Relationship with Mental Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom
Although the relationship between debt and mental health is well documented, little is known about how changes in debt status and the specific policies implemented to assist borrowers during the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the mental health of men and women. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of a non-neoliberal “credit payment holiday” scheme during the pandemic in the United Kingdom. Data come from three waves of the Underst…
Social dialogue quality and workers’ health as perceived by Belgian trade union representatives during the Covid-19 pandemic
Union representatives were surveyed throughout Belgium between August and December 2021 through an online questionnaire ( N = 469) to assess the relationship between trade union representatives’ perception of social dialogue quality and change in workers’ physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a modified Poisson regression for binary outcomes controlling for company characteristics, pre-pandemic self-reported health and p…
Long Covid and financial outcomes
BACKGROUND: Long-term sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID) include muscle weakness, fatigue, breathing difficulties and sleep disturbance over weeks or months. Using UK longitudinal data, we assessed the relationship between long COVID and financial disruption. METHODS: We estimated associations between long COVID (derived using self-reported length of COVID-19 symptoms) and measures of financial disruption (subjective financial well-being, new bene…
Incidence of reported cases of euthanasia adjusted for demographic composition
Analysis on euthanasia and assisted dying should consider population demographics when addressing incidence amongst populations to better capture age, regional and gender differences
Key considerations in understanding retirement’s health impact
SCOPUS: ed.j
Religious disparities in mental health
BACKGROUND: Religion is a central aspect of many people's lives worldwide. While most research has concentrated on individual religiosity, less attention has been paid to the broader social and structural dimensions of religious affiliation, particularly how affiliation to minority religious groups influences mental health through experiences of discrimination, marginalisation, and unequal social, economic, and political position. METHODS: We con…
Employment and Welfare Studies (11 obras) · Demographic economics (9 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Population (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (7 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras) · Mental health (5 obras)