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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
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 of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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 of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019398
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Work Loss and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bratsberg, Bernt; Godøy, Anna; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; … - 2023
We study the impact of work loss on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining data on work loss and health care consultations from comprehensive individual-level register data, we define groups of employees delineated by industry, region, age, and gender. With these groups, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296657
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Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance, and Health: Evidence from Brazil
Amorim, Guilherme; Britto, Diogo; Fonseca, Alexandre; … - 2024
We study the effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on health among Brazilian workers. We construct a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533852
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Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors
Nizalova, Olena Y.; Norton, Edward C. - 2017
With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this paper aims to address. We turn to Ukraine's experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744488
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Intergenerational Scars: The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296847
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The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented level of job losses in the U.S., where a job loss is also associated with the loss of health insurance. This paper uses data from the 2020 Household Pulse Survey (HPS) and difference-in-difference (DD) regressions to estimate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177791
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Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?
Nikolova, Milena; Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2016
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653139
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On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse
van der Linden, Bruno; Lehmann, Etienne - 2004
This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276945
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A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents
Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2014
This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468115