Health effects of unemployment in Europe (2008–2011): a longitudinal analysis of income and financial strain as mediating factors

Table 2 Self-rated health (SRH): Individual fixed effects correlations. All models control for age and age squared

	Model 1a	Model 2a	Model 3a	Model 4a	Model 5a	Model 6a
	Fixed effects	Fixed effects	Fixed effects	Fixed effects	Fixed effects	Fixed effects
Variables	SRH	SRH	SRH	SRH	SRH	SRH
Absolute income	0.006
	(0.013
Relative income		0.009
		(0.013)
Relative rank			0.003
			(0.004)
Income deprivation				0.010
				(0.106)
Financial strain					−0.044***
					(0.009)
Absolute income – excluding unemployment benefit						0.005
						(0.014)
Unemployment benefit						0.013
						(0.011)
Control for partnership status:
	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO
Observations	16,913	16,913	16,913	16,913	16,913	16,912
R-squared (within)	0.009	0.009	0.009	0.009	0.013	0.009
Number of respondents	6,200	6,200	6,200	6,200	6,200	6,200

Standard errors clustered on countries in parentheses, ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05

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