The effect of unemployment on mortality is the object of a lively literature. However, this literature is characterized … regional (NUTS 2) data from 23 European countries to estimate a multivariate regression of mortality. The estimating equation … allows for a quadratic relationship between unemployment and mortality. We control for various other determinants of …

This study uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to explore the relationship between mortality of men age 65 …-term associations between mobility and mortality are estimated. Both subjective and objective downward mobility had an immediate … positive association with mortality risk (increased by 44% and 24%, respectively). In contrast, upward mobility had a more …

The effect of unemployment on mortality is the object of a lively literature. However, this literature is characterized … regression of mortality. The estimating equation allows for a quadratic relationship between unemployment and mortality. We … control for various other determinants of mortality at regional and national level and we include region-specific and time …

This paper employs U.S. metropolitan data to investigate the relationship between mortality rate and the business cycle …. We utilize mortality and employment data that are specific to a given city, year and race/ethnic group. The analysis … relationship to vary according to the level of economic activity in that metropolitan area. We find that while overall mortality is …

differences in pro-cyclicality across subsamples that are expected to be affected differently by the business cycle. Mortality is … most pro-cyclical for young men (18-24), but there are also some indications of more pro-cyclical mortality for subgroups … areas. Finally, we investigate pro-cyclical mortality across socioeconomic groups and find that mortality is more …

disadvantaged socioeconomic groups are not hit harder by pro-cyclical mortality than advantaged groups. We also find that other …-cyclical mortality is rather related to deaths of people already in deteriorated health than to people of low socioeconomic status. …