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The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses: Evidence from plant closures in Germany

Marcus, Jan - 2012

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …

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The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany

Marcus, Jan - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 546-558

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and …

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Eliason, Marcus - 2015

The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a...

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

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...

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Work loss and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bratsberg, Bernt; Godøy, Anna; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; … - 2023

We study the impact of work loss on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining data on work loss and health care consultations from comprehensive individual-level register data, we define groups of employees delineated by industry, region, age, and gender. With these groups, we use a...

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