Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control …This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a reduction in the rate of job loss for …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a … deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced for working-aged men and are dominated by transitions into the very …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …