at reducing the number of claims and targeting benefits more closely to those with the greatest health need. At the same … time the UK labour market has also evolved and in particular now has an historically low level of unemployment, accompanied … framework to explore the relative importance of health status, benefit generosity and local labour market conditions for …

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel … paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal unemployment has beneficial child health impacts. Analysis of … explain why mothers and fathers' unemployment affect child health so differently …

We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative … treatments for alcohol-related disorders and mental health issues. We also find a stunning gender asymmetry: while male job … displacement generates large and persistent health effects, no such dire health consequences are observed after a woman loses her …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … husbandsﾒ job losses have significant negative effects on infant health. They reduce birth weights by approximately four and a …