even stronger estimates of the effect of layoffs on health as measured from biomarkers, in particular for glycosylated …The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a …

The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by … displaced men and women. For women, the wholly alcohol-attributable health problems were mainly limited to alcohol dependence …

health surveys, complemented by administrative data (morbidity rates of the employed and unemployed) and data from the … of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the … European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The starting point of the analysis is the calculation of morbidity rates of …

This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a … key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission … mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of unemployment suggests a fundamental shift in the policy responses …