"Seemingly short-term labor market shocks, such as job displacements, can have persistent effects on workers' earnings, employment, job stability, consumption, and access to health insurance. A long literature suggests such changes in workers' socioeconomic conditions can have potentially...

This paper uses administrative data on quarterly employment and earnings matched to death records to estimate the effects of job displacement on mortality. We find that job displacement leads to a 15-20% increase in death rates during the following 20 years. If such increases were sustained...