Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
利用瑞典1987-1988年所有企业倒闭导致工人失业的数据，发现男性在失业后四年内总体死亡风险增加44%，而女性无显著影响；但两性自杀和酒精相关死亡短期翻倍。
Abstract 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.