The recent global recession and concurrent rise in job loss makes unemployment insurance (UI) increasingly important to … and wage replacement levels. Though unemployment benefits are not intended to compensate fully for a loss of earnings …, generous UI programs can moderate harmful consequences of unemployment. …

causal link that has been hypothesized in the relation between unemployment and health, but not heretofore assessed. Using …

that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U ….S. literature. Using a fixed effects model and provincial data over the period 1977–2009, we estimate the effect of unemployment … unemployment rate lowers the predicted mortality rate of individuals in their 30s by nearly 2 percent. In contrast to the U.S. data …

System (1990–2009) to explore the relationship between the state unemployment rate and the consumption of various healthy and … unhealthy foods in the United States. Estimates, based on fixed effects methodologies, indicate that unemployment is associated … those predicted to be at highest risk of unemployment based on their socioeconomic characteristics. Among individuals …

This article investigates the effects of transitions between employment and unemployment on health. It also addresses …-in-differences propensity score matching to identify the direct causal effects of unemployment and reemployment on psychological and physical … transitions. Specifically, the effects of unemployment and reemployment are of similar size, highlighting the importance of …

We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in the United States using … risk for working-aged men and, specifically, that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate increases their …