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dc.contributor.authorSalm, Martinen
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-08-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:55:59Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:55:59Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513459en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35741-
dc.description.abstractThis 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 negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control for possible reverse causality, this study focuses on people who were laid off for an exogenous reason - the closure of their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons are a common cause of job termination. In contrast, I find no causal effect of exogenous job loss on various measures of physical and mental health. This suggests that the inferior health of the unemployed compared to the employed could be explained by reverse causality.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x4147en
dc.subject.jelI12en
dc.subject.jelJ63en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordJob displacementen
dc.subject.keywordhealthen
dc.subject.keywordunemploymenten
dc.subject.stwArbeitslosigkeiten
dc.subject.stwGesundheiten
dc.subject.stwKündigungen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleDoes job loss cause ill health?-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn59946920Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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