transactions cost-mobility constraints. Contracts provide full unemployment insurance for risks that are diversifiable by pooling … among firms. Nondiversifiable (macro) risks are only partially shifted,largely through self-insurance (contingency saving … compared with market sectors. The theory is used to analyze some features of the U.S. employment system. Its empirical support …

on individuals' health and wellbeing, there is relatively little evidence of their impact on sleep. Using data for over 3 …

insurance (UI) duration increases unemployment length and impacts worker physical and mental health. These effects vary by …

The relationship between unemployment and health continues to absorb social scientists. The primary reason is the … potential significance of an association. If a substantial deterioration in aggregate health is related to economic downturns …

, family status, and employment. The paper presents an aggregate time-series analysis of unemployment and infant health that …Lifetime income is less variable than annual household income, since the latter reflects transitory shocks to wages … of low-birthweight births is the health outcome. Because we are able to control for the race-specific percentage of women …

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

access to health insurance and care may be an important part of the health effects of job loss for some workers. The pattern … rates. This paper examines the short- to medium-term changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization … longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related measures and outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self …

also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … leads to a reduction in longevity. We also find that this exposure leads to several years of reduced employment, health … insurance coverage, and health care utilization which may contribute to the lower long-term likelihood of survival …

differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …