Unemployment insurance is hypothesized to play an important role in mitigating the adverse
health consequences of job loss. In this prospective cohort study, we examined whether …

Unemployment rates in the United States remain near a 25-year high and global
unemployment is rising. Previous studies have shown that unemployed persons have an …

Background Unemployment has been reported to be associated with an increased risk of
mortality. While most available studies focused on the effects of temporary unemployment on …

Background: There is a strong association between unemployment and mortality, but
whether this relationship is causal remains debated. This study utilizes population-level …

Purpose Individual-level unemployment has been consistently linked to poor health and
higher mortality, but some scholars have suggested that the negative effect of job loss may …

Research suggests that job loss can cause illness and premature death. This raises the
question of whether unemployment benefit programs, which are intended to alleviate the …

Background This study describes the association between unemployment and cause-
specific mortality for a cohort of working-age Canadians. Methods We conducted a cohort …

Objectives. We examined the relationship between unemployment and mortality in
Germany, a coordinated market economy, and the United States, a liberal market economy …

In the wake of the Great Recession, an expanding body of research has highlighted the role
of social protection policies in mitigating the deleterious effects of adverse socioeconomic …

Objectives. We assessed the impact of unemployment benefit programs on the health of the
unemployed. Methods. We linked US state law data on maximum allowable unemployment …