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 …. Using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data the paper reveals that unemployment decreases the mental health of spouses …

, single individuals and those with lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking …

. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health. The … considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous … health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current …