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 …

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

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 …

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

Workplace downsizing and closure have been considered natural experiments that
strengthen causal inference when assessing the association between unemployment and …

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 …

Longitudinal studies at the level of individuals find that employees who lose their jobs are at
increased risk of death. However, analyses of aggregate data find that as unemployment …

Using US state-level data for 1974 to 2003, this article estimates a relationship that
describes both the transitory and permanent effects of unemployment rates on mortality. It …

Background. Studies have consistently found evidence of an association between
unemployment and all-cause mortality. The association appears to follow a gradient, with …

We use micro-data to investigate the relationship between unemployment and mortality in
the United States using Logistic regression on a sample of over 16,000 individuals. We …