Jacinto, Paulo de Andrade; Tejada, César Augusto Oviedo; … - Associação dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em … - 2005
The paper investigates de relationship between employment rate and mortality rate in Brazil during the period 1981-2002. It briefly reviews the literature on macroeconomic conditions and health, emphasizing the existence of two controversial hypothesis. The Ruhm's Hypothesis suggest that high...