The Effects of Job Loss on Health over Two Decades

项目摘要 失业是一种负面事件，可能会对个人健康产生不利影响。在那里的时候 是一大堆文献表明失业与较差的健康有关，这篇文章 工作充满了因果关系和内生性的问题。拟议的研究使用了一种特定的 而在中国的个案中独树一帜的失业扩展了关于失业因果关系的文献 中国的国有企业在健康政府推动下的裁员。因为 国企裁员主要是由外生政策变化引起的，而不是由个人决定的 性能或市场竞争，这一案例提供了比一般情况更外生的情况 裁员在检验因果效应中。我们将使用两个相互补充的数据集 -跨越二十多年的纵向数据集(中国健康和营养调查 (中国社会科学院1993年至2015年)，以及最近的具有回顾生活史调查的数据集(中国健康， 退休纵向研究(CHARLS)2011-2018年)进行分析。该项目具有重要的 它提高了我们对失业对健康的短期和长期影响的理解， 这种关系的机制，以及这种影响如何因性别、家庭背景、 职业声望，以及个人的教育水平。此外，它还将确定职业生涯 进一步使失业者受害的阶段和经济环境。通过确定哪些人 这项研究将帮助政策制定者有效地缓冲不利的 失业对未来健康的影响。这在当代社会尤为重要 那里的工作稳定性一直在下降。我们也将是第一批审查长期 失业对老年人痴呆的影响。

Project Summary Job loss is a negative event that may have detrimental effects on individual health. While there is a large body of literature showing that job loss is associated with poorer health, this body of work is fraught with issues of causality and endogeneity. The proposed study uses a specific and unique case of job loss in China to extend the literature on causal effects of job loss on health – government-driven layoffs in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. Because the SOE layoffs are mostly induced by exogenous policy change, and not dictated by personal performance or market competitions, this case provides a more exogenous case than general layoffs in examining the causal effect. We will employ two datasets that complement each other – a longitudinal dataset that spans over two decades (China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 1993-2015), and a recent dataset with a retrospective life history survey (China Health, Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2011-2018) for analysis. This project is significant in that it improves our understanding of the short- and long-term effects of job loss on health, the mechanisms of this relationship, and how such effects differ by gender, family contexts, occupation prestige, and education levels of individuals. Additionally, it will identify the career stages and economic contexts that further victimize job losers. By identifying the individuals who are the hardest hit by job loss, the study will help policy makers effectively cushion the adverse effect of job loss on health in the future. This is especially important in contemporary societies where job stability has been declining. We will also be among the first to examine the long-term effect of job loss on dementia among older adults.