The Long-Run Effects of Job Displacement on Sources of Health Insurance Coverage

Jolly, Nicholas A.; Phelan, Brian J.

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“…Finally, results from this analysis are suggestive of the mitigating role played by health insurance. Previous research shows that those individuals with access to health insurance experience little interruption in health insurance coverage after involuntary job loss (Jolly and Phelan 2017). While sample sizes preclude drawing definitive conclusions, the results here are suggestive of the notion that wives covered by a health insurance plan at the time of the husbands' displacement have smaller negative health effects relative to those wives without coverage.…”

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“…Arguably, a spouse's job loss can affect M t and TH t . Job displacement results in a lack of access to employer-provided health insurance (Jolly and Phelan 2015) and a decrease in the probability of insurance coverage (e.g., Schaller and Stevens 2015;Jolly and Phelan 2017). If the displaced spouse's previous employer was the source of health insurance coverage, these factors may raise the cost of medical care inputs.…”

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The effects of job displacement on spousal health

Jolly

2020

Rev Econ Household

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This paper studies how job displacement influences the health of the worker's spouse. Results show that the husband's displacement leads to an increase in the probability of the wife reporting her physical health as fair/poor. These wives are also more likely to experience high blood pressure, heart disease, and/or emotional issues. Wives who are in poor health at baseline, are in low financial standing prior to the husbands' job loss, are not working two years before the husbands' job loss, and have children at home at the time of the husbands' displacement tend to drive these results. Husbands of displaced wives experience little change in self-reported health, the probability of high blood pressure, heart disease, or emotional issues.

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The effects of job displacement on spousal health

Jolly

2020

Rev Econ Household

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“…Job loss also leaves households at risk of a range of negative outcomes. In the short run, these include reduced income and difficulty finding new work (Farber 2017), loss of health insurance (Schaller and Stevens 2015;Jolly and Phelan 2017), and increased debt (Sullivan 2008). In the longer run, potential consequences include depleted savings and postponed retirement (Chan and Stevens 1999), increased risk of mortality (Sullivan and von Wachter 2009), and adverse effects on children's well-being (Kalil and Wightman 2011).…”

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Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed

Buchmueller

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Valletta

2021

Journal of Labor Economics

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“…Prior individual-level analyses on job displacement and plant closures in the U.S. and in European countries have demonstrated that involuntary job loss is associated with an array of negative health related outcomes, including decreased mental and physical health functioning ( Riumallo-Herl et al, 2014 ; Schaller & Stevens, 2015 ), decreased self-reported health ( Huijts et al, 2015 ; Strully, 2009 ), increased cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption ( Black et al, 2015 ; Gallo et al, 2001 ), and increased short-term and long-term risks of all-cause mortality ( Browning & Heinesen, 2012 ; Sullivan & von Wachter, 2009 ). Studies have documented how increased economic strain ( Schaller & Stevens, 2015 ; Strully, 2009 ; Sullivan & von Wachter, 2009 ), decreased employment prospects and precarious employment situations ( Janoski, Luke, & Oliver, 2014 ; Strully, 2009 ), and reduced access to health insurance and reduced health care use ( Jolly & Phelan, 2017 ; Schaller & Stevens, 2015 ; Sullivan & von Wachter, 2009 ) raise the likelihood of experiencing adverse health outcomes and behaviors, including alcohol and cigarette usage.…”

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The economic underpinnings of the drug epidemic

Seltzer

2020

SSM - Population Health

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U.S. labor markets have experienced transformative change over the past half century. Spurred on by global economic change, robotization, and the decline of labor unions, state labor markets have shifted away from an occupational regime dominated by the production of goods to one characterized by the provision of services. Prior studies have proposed that the deterioration of employment opportunities may be associated with the rise of substance use disorders and drug overdose deaths, yet no clear link between changes in labor market dynamics in the U.S. manufacturing sector and drug overdose deaths has been established. Using restricted-use vital registration records between 1999 and 2017 that comprise over 700,000 drug deaths, I test two questions: First, what is the association between manufacturing decline and drug and opioid overdose mortality rates? Second, how much of the increase in these drug-related outcomes can be predicted by manufacturing decline? The findings provide strong evidence that the restructuring of the U.S. labor market has played an important upstream role in the current drug crisis. Up to 92,000 overdose deaths for men and up to 44,000 overdose deaths for women are predicted by the decline of state-level manufacturing over this nearly two-decade period. These results persist in models that adjust for other social, economic, and policy trends changing at the same time. Critically, the findings signal the value of policy interventions that aim to reduce persistent economic precarity experienced by individuals and communities, especially the economic strain placed upon the middle class.

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The Long-Run Effects of Job Displacement on Sources of Health Insurance Coverage

Cited by 12 publications

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The effects of job displacement on spousal health

The effects of job displacement on spousal health

Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed

The economic underpinnings of the drug epidemic

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