@article{ref1,
title="Job loss is bad for your health: Swedish evidence on cause-specific hospitalization following involuntary job loss",
journal="Social science and medicine (1982)",
year="2009",
author="Eliason, M. and Storrie, Donald",
volume="68",
number="8",
pages="1396-1406",
abstract="This paper examines the impact of job loss on a number of non-fatal health events, which are nonetheless severe enough to require hospital in-patient care. We focus on job loss due only to establishment closures, as this reduces the problem of distinguishing between causation and selection. Using linked employee-employer register data, we identify the job losses due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987 or 1988. During a subsequent 12-year period, we find that job loss significantly increases the risk of hospitalization due to alcohol-related conditions, among both men and women, and due to traffic accidents and self-harm, among men only. We find no evidence, however, that job loss increased the risk of severe cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction or stroke.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0277-9536",
doi="10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.021",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.021"
}