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 unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

A rich literature has studied the effect of job insecurity on health. However the causal link between these two … variables remains unclear. We study the relationship between perceived job insecurity and health using longitudinal data on … of the dataset compared to previous studies on job insecurity and health allows us to apply different estimation methods …

We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective and objective measures of health of … workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and … measures of physical health and intellectual ability. We find a positive link between job satisfaction and various self …

What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work … health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this paper I examine the associations between non-standard job schedules … and workers’ physical and mental health outcomes using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …

and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used … improve the health and safety of workers. …