This paper investigates the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in …, positive relationship between adverse economic conditions and the mortality …

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e … to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on the level of …

This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a … mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of unemployment suggests a fundamental shift in the policy responses … effects of unemployment. The paper discusses several preventative features of the program. …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent … mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when …

Security Administration to examine the relationship between the long-term unemployment that prime-aged (ages 25-55) male … Supplemental Security Income (DI-SSI) benefits, and mortality. Separate estimations are made for those who voluntarily and … associated with significantly lower earnings and higher likelihoods of the receipt of DI-SSI benefits as well as mortality …

. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies …