Amorim, Guilherme; Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, … - 2024
We study the effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on health among Brazilian workers. We construct a … novel dataset linking individual-level administrative records on employment, hospital discharges, and mortality for a 17 … that job loss increases hospitalization (+33%) and mortality risks (+23%) for male workers, while women are not affected …