RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 277
OP 302
DO 10.3368/jhr.44.2.277
VO 44
IS 2
A1 Marcus Eliason
A1 Donald Storrie
YR 2009
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/44/2/277.abstract
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.