Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Kent and GLO, CC.216 Cornwallis, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK;2. University of Michigan and NBER, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA;1. Department of Economics, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 349, United States;2. Department of Economics, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 345, United States;1. Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;2. Graduate Program in Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;3. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;4. Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;5. Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;7. World Trade Center Health Registry, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York;11. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York;1. Centre for Economic Demography, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, P.O. Box 7083, SE–22007 Lund, Sweden;2. Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, P.O. Box 7083, SE–22007 Lund, Sweden;3. IZA, Bonn, Germany;4. CEPR, Washington, D.C., USA;1. Department of Economics, Union College, Lippman Hall 103, 807 Union St, Schenectady, NY, 12308, USA;2. Albany Medical College, NY, USA |
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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. |
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| Keywords: | Involuntary job loss Growth curve Obesity Health behaviors |
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