Nizalova, Olena, Norton, Edward C. (2021) Long-Term Effects of Job Loss on Male Health: BMI and Health Behaviors. Economics and Human Biology, 43 . Article Number 101038. ISSN 1570-677X. (doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101038) (KAR id:89486)
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Abstract
Employment is one of the most critical determinants of health and health behaviors for adults. This study focuses on Ukraine and measures how an involuntary job loss – defined as job loss due to business closures, reorganizations, bankruptcies, or privatization – affects BMI, being overweight or obese, smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity. There are three reasons to study Ukraine in the aftermath of an
enormous economic transition that resulted in employment contraction as high as 40% compared to 1990. First, nearly all published studies on the relationship between job loss and health and health behaviors have been on developed countries, meaning that our study fills the gap in the literature on transition economies. Second, the job losses that we study are plausibly exogenous and affected a significant share of the population. Third, the longitudinal survey follows individuals for up to 10 years starting from 2003, allowing us to capture the long-term effects of past job loss on outcomes at a specific point in time and their trajectories across the life cycle. Applying growth-curve models, we show that past involuntary job loss significantly alters the age trajectories of all considered outcomes at both extensive and intensive margins.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101038 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | involuntary job loss; growth curve; obesity; health behaviors |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit |
Depositing User: | Nicci Place |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2021 16:05 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:55 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/89486 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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