PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eliason, Marcus
AU  - Storrie, Donald
TI  - Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.44.2.277
DP  - 2009 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 277--302
VI  - 44
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/2/277.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/2/277.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2009 Mar 31; 44
AB  - This paper examines the impact of job loss on overall and cause-specific mortality. Using linked employer-employee data, we identified the workers displaced due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987 and 1988. Hence, we have extended the case study approach, which has dominated the plant closure literature. The overall mortality risk among men increased by 44 percent during the first four years following job loss, while there was no impact on either female overall mortality or in the longer run. For both sexes, however, there was an about twofold short-run increase in suicides and alcohol-related mortality.