Svensson, Mikael - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 4/6, pp. 615-625
This article explores the relationship between the regional unemployment rate in total and cause-specific mortality in … Sweden during 1976-2005. Overall mortality is unrelated to changes in the unemployment rate, while the biggest cause of death … (heart disease) decreases when the unemployment rate decreases. At the same time, other accidents, including job …