KUHN, Andreas; LALIVE, Rafael; ZWEIMÜLLER, Josef - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2007
This paper studies how unemployment affects public health costs. We use plant closure as an instrument for unemployment … because bankruptcy is unlikely to be caused by deteriorating health but has a strong impact on workers' subsequent employment …. The empirical analysis is based on an extremely rich data set with comprehensive information on various types of health …