Arbeitspapier
Does job loss cause ill health?
This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control for possible reverse causality, this study focuses on people who were laid off for an exogenous reason - the closure of their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons are a common cause of job termination. In contrast, I find no causal effect of exogenous job loss on various measures of physical and mental health. This suggests that the inferior health of the unemployed compared to the employed could be explained by reverse causality.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4147
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
- Subject
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Job displacement
health
unemployment
Arbeitslosigkeit
Gesundheit
Kündigung
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Salm, Martin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513459
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Salm, Martin
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2009
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