Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - In: Journal of Health Economics 28 (2009) 6, pp. 1099-1115
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but...