Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
利用瑞典1987-1988年所有企业倒闭导致的工人失业数据，发现男性失业后四年内总死亡率上升44%，且短期内自杀和酒精相关死亡率翻倍，但对女性无显著影响。
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.