This paper investigates the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in …

We investigate the long-term effects of macroeconomic crises experienced during prime working age (20 to 50) on health … 1% significantly reduces health later in life. Specifically, respondents hit by such a shock rate their subjective … health as worse, are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and mobility limitations, and have lower grip strength. The …

This paper adds to the empirical literature of health as a potential endogenous explanatory variable in wage equations … by addressing problems such as unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection and measurement error (in the health variable … relationship between health and wages. Our results provide empirical evidence of measurement error in the self-reported health …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …