Toward a Better Estimation of the Effect of Job Loss on Health

Burgard, Sarah A.; Brand, Jennie E.; House, James S.

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“…The UNLV CHIA makes these data available to institutions for research, public health, or health care operations, after the applicant obtains a Limited Data Set Use Agreement to protect patient privacy. After the study was approved by the UNLV Table 1 Factor Association Stress reactions, including negative coping behaviors Psychiatric diagnoses [9][10][11][12][35][36][37] Sexually-transmitted diseases [38], alcoholic cirrhosis of liver [37], carcinomas [39] Lack of access to health resources Diabetes [40], hypertension, acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, occlusion of cerebral arteries [41,42] Institutional Review Board, we used this database to conduct an assessment of Clark County, Nevada, hospital discharge data using the principal diagnosis for 25 diagnostic-related groups (DRGs), based on the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification. We limited our assessment to the DRGs associated with stress (primarily psychiatric diagnoses), as well as some of the DRGs associated with lack of access to health resources (resulting in hospitalization for conditions that could have been managed in an ambulatory setting), see Table 1.…”

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“…Unemployment-associated conditions include psychiatric disorders and substance abuse [9,10]. The most frequent mental health effect associated with unemployment is depression [11,12]. As unemployed individuals lose income and assets, their ability to access health care because of loss of employer-based health insurance hinders their ability to receive treatment [10].…”

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Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data

2012

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Objectives. The purpose of this study was to assess the health effects of high home foreclosure rates in an area of the United States of America and the utility of hospital discharge data for this purpose. Methods. We analyzed hospital discharge data from three postal zip codes using the principal diagnosis for 25 Diagnostic Related Groups associated with stress. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize hospital discharge rates for each condition by year and zip code. To test for differences across time, the CochranArmitage trend test was performed. Results. Most conditions did not demonstrate a statistical change between 2005 and 2008. There was a marked spike in bipolar and depressive disorders in 2007 in all zip codes. Conclusions. The sharp rise for bipolar and depressive disorders in 2007 coincides with the doubling of foreclosure filings nationally. There are many confounding factors affecting hospital discharge data, which limit its specificity for assessing the health effects of foreclosure.

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Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data

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“…Job losses of these persons are unlikely to be exogenous (Schröder, 2013). Moreover, information on whether any early-career job ended due to an illness or disability was exploited (see Burgard et al, 2007 for a similar approach). Excluding such health-induced job losses further addresses concerns about health selection issues.…”

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“…Although many studies show that job loss and unemployment have negative direct effects on health (e.g. Burgard, Brand, & House, 2007;Strully, 2009), surprisingly little is known about the potential long-term consequences, especially for workers who experience negative labour market events in their earlycareer.…”

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The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe

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Recent years have witnessed an increase in interest towards the long-term health consequences of early-career job loss and youth unemployment. Relying on detailed retrospective data from the third wave (2008/09) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) this paper investigates whether an involuntary job loss in the first 10 years after labour market entry has lasting negative effects on health more than 30 years later. The results show that an early-career involuntary job loss due to a layoff or plant closure increases the probability of fair or poor self-rated health in late life by about 6 percentage points. Moreover, examining the mechanisms behind this relationship, the analysis reveals that the subsequent unemployment risks and employment instability only explain a small share of the total effect. In line with previous studies, these findings highlight the importance of early career experiences for workers' later life health.

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The effects of import competition on health in the local economy

2018

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We provide evidence that average mental, physical, and general health worsens for employed workers in local U.S. labor markets exposed to greater import competition from China. The effects are greatest for mental health. Moving a region from the 25th to 75th percentiles of import exposure corresponds to a 7.8% increase in the morbidity of poor mental health, adding about 3 days of poor mental health per year for the average adult. Concurrently, the ability to afford health care decreases. Our results complement documented consequences of import competition on labor markets and temporary business cycle shocks on health outcomes.

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Toward a Better Estimation of the Effect of Job Loss on Health

Cited by 284 publications

References 38 publications

Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data

Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data

The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe

The effects of import competition on health in the local economy

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