The Public Health Costs of Unemployment
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Keywords
social cost of unemployment; health; non-employment; plant closure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
- J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
- J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2007-11-03 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2007-11-03 (Labour Economics)
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