The cost of unemployment may be broken down into two components: economic and social costs. This paper considers one aspect of social costs: the relation between unemployment and health. It makes use of panel data collected in a survey specifically designed to analyze this relation. These data...

Using Statistics Canada's General Social Survey on Family and Friends, carried out in 1990, we piece together the matrimonial and conjugal life history of a large sample of Canadian men and women. We then estimate duration models (Cox's proportional hazard models) describing the evolutionary...