Asymmetries and a reconsideration of unemployment’s impact upon mortality

Sediq Sameem and Kevin Sylwester

Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 163, issue C, 114-117

Abstract: Using linear models, studies find that mortality declines with unemployment. We consider asymmetric alternatives allowing associations to differ in weak or weakening economies for a panel of U.S. states from 1977 to 2013. We do not find strong evidence for asymmetries.

Keywords: Unemployment; Mortality; Asymmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 I1 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.12.019

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