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Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss
Eliason, Marcus - 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467775
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343926
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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/10004976785
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Long-run effects of severe economic recessions on male BMI trajectories and health behaviors
Nizalova, Olena; 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/10011664295
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Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance and Health : Evidence from Brazil
Amorim, Guilherme; Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, … - 2023
We study the causal effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on hospitalization and mortality for Brazilian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254915
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Job loss, unemployment insurance, and health : evidence from Brazil
Amorim, Guilherme; Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, … - 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/10014486334
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The effect of unemployment on the smoking behavior of couples
Everding, Jakob; Marcus, Jan - 2019 - This version: May 2019
Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German … Socio-Economic Panel data, we combine matching and difference-in-differences estimation, employing the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010330
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The effect of unemployment on the smoking behavior of couples
Everding, Jakob; Marcus, Jan - 2019
Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German … Socio-Economic Panel data, we combine matching and difference-indifferences estimation, employing the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012399
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Employment insecurity and employees' health in Denmark
Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2016
We use register data for Denmark (IDA) merged with the Danish Work Environment Cohort Survey (1995-2000-2005) to estimate the effect of employment insecurity on health for a sample of Danish employees. We consider two health measures from the SF-36 Health Survey Instrument: a vitality scale for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775946
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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/10014250656