The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, now a global health crisis, has
surprised health authorities around the world. Recent studies suggest that the measures …

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

Psychological well-being is a major global concern receiving more scholarly attention
following the 2008 Great Recession, and it becomes even more relevant in the context of …

We investigate the impact of a large and persistent economic shock on “deaths of despair.”
We find that areas more exposed to a plausibly exogenous change in international trade …

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a
Regression Discontinuity Design to exploit financial incentives in the German pension …

This paper analyzes those economic and social consequences of job loss which contribute
to exclusion from society, based on German linked survey and administrative data. In order …

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This
study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental …

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 …

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress
using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity–that is, the fear of
involuntary job loss–on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on …