Economic Upturns are Good for Your Heart but Watch out for Accidents

Mikael Svensson

No 2006:9, Working Papers from Örebro University, School of Business

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the regional unemployment rate and total and cause-specific mortality in Sweden during 1976-2005. Overall mortality is unrelated to changes in the unemployment rate, while the biggest cause of death (heart disease) decreases during economic upturns. At the same time other accidents, including job-related accidents, increase during economic upturns. Swedish evidence provides no support for the US papers which have found that short-term economic upturns are bad for your health in general.

Keywords: Determinants of Health; Mortality; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2006-12-14, Revised 2007-06-26
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Published in Applied Economics, 2010, pages 615-625.

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