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 unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …