This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

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 …