CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Gaspar, Katalin |
|---|---|
| Title | The relationship between unemployment and health |
| Summary | Using a Hungarian longitudinal health survey I analyze the causal relationship between unemployment and health, and I examine whether any significant relationship exist after simultaneity is treated. After establishing the presence of simultaneity, I use three different methods to circumvent the problem. The main conclusion throughout the four models is consistent. Unemployment has a detrimental effect on health, and vice versa poor health will lead to a higher probability of unemployment after endogeneity is treated. I find that the length of unemployment will influence the change in health-status between the two surveys. The deterioration in health is the greatest for those who were unemployed during both surveys. Less health deterioration can be measured among those who transitioned from unemployment to work during the two surveys, and the least amount of deterioration is noticeable among those who transitioned from work to unemployment. Examining the marginal effects reveals that employment transitions are the most significant in explaining a change in health if the change in health-status is moderate, which means that transitions will not lead to extreme changes in health. |
| Supervisor | Gábor Kőrösi |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/gaspar_katalin.pdf |
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