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

Journal of Health and Social Behavior - Tập 48 Số 4 - Trang 369-384 - 2007
Sarah A. Burgard1, Jennie E. Brand2, James S. House3
1Sarah A. Burgard is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, and she is assistant research scientist at the Population Studies Center in the university's Institute for Social Research. Her work examines the consequences of social stratification for population health and health disparities. Currently, her focus is on the health of adults over the working career, as changes in the contemporary United States labor market generate rising insecurity for workers. She...
2Jennie E. Brand is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California—Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the effects of and relationships among social background, educational attainment, labor-market processes, and job conditions on socioeconomic attainment and health and well-being over the life course. She also studies the application and innovation of quantitative methods for longitudinal data analysis.
3James S. House is the Angus Campbell Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Survey Research and research professor and former director of the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors in understanding and explaining social inequalities in health and the way health changes with age.

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Previous research has shown that involuntary job loss may have negative health consequences, but existing analyses have not adequately adjusted for health selection or other confounding factors that could reveal the association to be spurious. Using two large, population-based longitudinal samples of U.S. workers from the Americans' Changing Lives Study and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, this analysis goes further by using respondents' self-reports of the reasons for job loss and information about the timing of job losses and acute negative health shocks to distinguish health-related job losses from other involuntary job losses. Results suggest that even after adjustment for numerous social background characteristics and baseline health, involuntary job loss is associated with significantly poorer overall self-rated health and more depressive symptoms. More nuanced analyses reveal that among involuntary job losers, those who lose their jobs for health-related reasons have, not surprisingly, the most precipitous declines in health. Job losses for other reasons have substantive and statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms, while effects on self-rated poor health are relatively small.

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Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Tập 48 Số 4

369-384

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