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 …

mental well-being. Yet the association between local area unemployment and health behaviours is mostly positive, with higher …The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health …

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 … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …

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 …

the inflation–unemployment dynamics during the recession and COVID-19 times in India and the UK. Using a generalized …

of COVID-19. This occasional paper assesses the impact of this crisis on key labour market variables, such as (un-)employment …