Objective To evaluate the impact of persistent precarious employment (lasting 12+ months)
on the health of working age adults, compared with more stable employment. Persistent …

Background Almost all studies on the effect on health from unemployment have concluded
that unemployment is bad for your health. However, only a few review articles have dealt …

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 …

The effect of unemployment on mortality is the object of a lively literature. However, this
literature is characterized by sharply conflicting results. We revisit this issue and suggest that …

Background: Most previous studies on the effects of length of unemployment on health have
focused on the duration of continuous spells of unemployment rather than on the cumulative …

Mathers and Schofield, from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, review recent
studies, including Australian research, on the health effects of unemployment and the …

Impressive. Timely. These two words capture the essence of a study by Lundin et al
published in this issue (see page 22). 1 The authors examine a cohort of Swedish men born …

Background: Existing evidence on the association between being out of work because of
sickness or disability and high mortality risk suggests that most of the association cannot be …

Objective To determine the associations between different measures of health and labor
market position across ten European countries. Methods We studied 11,462 participants of …

OBJECTIVES: Earlier research on health-related selection into unemployment has been
based on relatively severe health problems, leaves questions unanswered about particular …