This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

-insurance from savings. Exploiting variation from unemployment benefits eligibility, we also provide evidence on the mitigating role … of formal unemployment insurance using a Regression Discontinuity design exploiting the cutoff from the unemployment …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using … a sample of men and women who are predominantly aged in their early forties. To do so we merge survey data on health and … health behaviors with register data on person and firm characteristics. We track the health of displaced and non …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …