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dc.contributor.authorHeggebø, Kristian
dc.contributor.authorElstad, Jon Ivar
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-21T20:45:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-23T13:55:13Z
dc.date.available2017-11-21T20:45:09Z
dc.date.available2018-01-23T13:55:13Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationHeggebø KH, Elstad JI. Is it Easier to Be Unemployed When the Experience Is More Widely Shared? Effects of Unemployment on Self-rated Health in 25 European Countries with Diverging Macroeconomic Conditions. European Sociological Review. 2017:1-18en
dc.identifier.issn0266-7215
dc.identifier.issn1468-2672
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/5563
dc.description.abstractThe economic crisis in Europe since 2008 has led to high unemployment levels in several countries. Previous research suggests that becoming unemployed is a health risk, but is job loss and unemployment easier to cope with when unemployment is widespread? Using EU-SILC panel data (2010–2013), this study examines short-term effects of unemployment on self-rated health (SRH) in 25 European countries with diverging macroeconomic conditions. Ordinary least squares regressions show that the unemployed are in worse health than the employed throughout Europe. The association is reduced considerably, but remains significant in several countries when time-invariant personal characteristics are accounted for using individual-level fixed-effects models. Propensity score kernel matching shows that both being and becoming unemployed are associated with slightly worse SRH. There is a weak tendency towards less health effects of unemployment in countries where the experience is widely shared. In particular, countries with a very low unemployment rate stand out with larger health effects. The results overall suggest that a changed composition of the unemployed population is an important explanation for the weaker unemployment—health association in high-unemployment countries.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.rightsThe Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.or g/ licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.comen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectUnemployeden
dc.subjectEuropeen
dc.subjectEffectsen
dc.subjectself-rated health (SRH)en
dc.titleIs it Easier to Be Unemployed When the Experience Is More Widely Shared? Effects of Unemployment on Self-rated Health in 25 European Countries with Diverging Macroeconomic Conditionsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2017-11-21T20:45:08Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcx080
dc.identifier.cristin1516950
dc.source.journalEuropean Sociological Review


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