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 …

We analyse the effect of unemployment on health using information from the German Socio-
Economic Panel of the years 1991–2008. To establish a causal effect we rely on fixed …

The unemployed are often in poorer health than their employed counterparts. This cross-
sectional correlation is often attributed to a causal effect of unemployment on health. Recent …

An important conclusion of the health and retirement literature is that financial incentives are
very important for the retirement decision, but so is health (see Hurd, 1990; Lumsdaine and …

Background The relationship between unemployment and poor health has been well
established. Unemployment causes poor health, and poor health increases the probability of …

Job loss in the United States is associated with reductions in income and long-term
increases in mortality rates. This paper examines the short-run changes in health, health …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between
employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two …

Previous research has shown that involuntary job loss may have negative health
consequences, but existing analyses have not adequately adjusted for health selection or …

This paper explores the interrelation between health and work decisions of older workers.
For this, two issues are of relevance. Firstly, health and work may be endogenously related …

In this note we test if unemployment has an effect on mortality using a large individual level
data set of nearly 30,000 individuals in Sweden aged 20–64 years followed-up for 10–17 …