Diabetes morbidity after displacement

Författare: Annette Bergemann, Och Erik Grönqvist, Och Soffia Guðbjörnsdóttir, Och

Publicerad i: Emerald insight (July 2019) Health and Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, vol. 47), pp. 99-154

Sammanfattning av Working paper 2018:15

We investigate how career disruptions in terms of job loss may impact morbidity for individuals diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Combining unique, high-quality longitudinal data from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (NDR) with matched employer-employee data, we focus on individuals diagnosed with T2D, who are established on the labor market and who lose their job in a mass layoff. Using a conditional Difference-in-Differences evaluation approach, our results give limited support for job loss having an impact on health behavior, diabetes progression and cardiovascular risk factors.