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Eliason, Marcus - 2015

The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a...

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

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Work loss and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bratsberg, Bernt; Godøy, Anna; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; … - 2023

We study the impact of work loss on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining data on work loss and health care consultations from comprehensive individual-level register data, we define groups of employees delineated by industry, region, age, and gender. With these groups, we use a...

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Precautionary fertility : conceptions, births, and abortions around employment shocks

Bárdits, Anna; Bisztray, Márta; Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes; … - 2023

This paper studies the effects of employment shocks on births and induced abortions. We are the first to show that abortions play a role in fertility responses to job displacement. Furthermore, we document precautionary fertility behavior: the anticipatory response of women to expected labor...

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Precautionary fertility : conceptions, births, and abortions around employment shocks

Bárdits, Anna; Adamecz, Anna; Bisztray, Márta; Weber, … - 2023

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm-level mass layoff and closure events to individual-level records on births and abortions, we show that the main response happens in anticipation of the shock. Responses differ by...

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Who is bowling alone? : quantile treatment effects of unemployment on social participation

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2020

This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …

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Long-run effects of severe economic recessions on male BMI trajectories and health behaviors

Nizalova, Olena; Norton, Edward C. - 2017

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this paper aims to address. We turn to Ukraine's experience...

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