Economic and Health Implications of Long-Term Unemployment: Earnings, Disability Benefits, and Mortality

Kenneth Couch, Gayle L. Reznik, Christopher R. Tamborini and Howard M. Iams

A chapter in New Analyses of Worker Well-Being, 2014, vol. 38, pp 259-305 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Data from the 1984Survey of Income and Program Participationare linked to longitudinal records from the Social Security Administration to examine the relationship between the long-term unemployment that prime-aged (ages 25–55) male workers experienced around the time of the 1980–1982 twin recessions with earnings, receipt of either Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income (DI-SSI) benefits, and mortality. Separate estimations are made for those who voluntarily and involuntarily left employment and the combined sample of these two groups. We find that 20 years later, long-term joblessness was associated with significantly lower earnings and higher likelihoods of the receipt of DI-SSI benefits as well as mortality.

Keywords: Earnings; mortality; social security disability insurance; supplemental security income; unemployment; recession; health; H55; I31; J31; J63; J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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