ArticleAmerican journal of public health2012
Unemployment and mortality: a comparative study of Germany and the United States.
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Abstract
objectivesWe examined the relationship between unemployment and mortality in Germany, a coordinated market economy, and the United States, a liberal market economy.
methodsWe followed 2 working-age cohorts from the German Socio-economic Panel and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1984 to 2005. We defined unemployment as unemployed at the time of survey. We used discrete-time survival analysis, adjusting for potential confounders.
resultsThere was an unemployment-mortality association among Americans (relative risk [RR]=2.4; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.7, 3.4), but not among Germans (RR=1.4; 95% CI=1.0, 2.0). In education-stratified models, there was an association among minimum-skilled (RR=2.6; 95% CI=1.4, 4.7) and medium-skilled (RR=2.4; 95% CI=1.5, 3.8) Americans, but not among minimum- and medium-skilled Germans. There was no association among high-skilled Americans, but an association among high-skilled Germans (RR=3.0; 95% CI=1.3, 7.0), although this was limited to those educated in East Germany. Minimum- and medium-skilled unemployed Americans had the highest absolute risks of dying.
conclusionsThe higher risk of dying for minimum- and medium-skilled unemployed Americans, not found among Germans, suggests that the unemployment-mortality relationship may be mediated by the institutional and economic environment.
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