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Titre :	Are recessions really good for your health ? Evidence from Canada. (2012)
Auteurs :	Hideki ARIIZUMI ; Tammy SCHIRLE ; Department of Economics. Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo. ON. CAN
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Social science and medicine (vol. 74, n° 8, 2012)
Pagination :	1224-1231
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Canada ; Chômage ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Homme ; Amérique ; Amérique du Nord
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS GR0xI77I. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This study investigates the relationship between business cycle fluctuations and health in the Canadian context, given that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U.S. literature. Using a fixed effects model and provincial data over the period 1977-2009, we estimate the effect of unemployment rates on Canadian age and gender specific mortality rates. Consistent with U.S. results, there is some evidence of a strong procyclical pattern in the mortality rates of middle-aged Canadians. We find that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate lowers the predicted mortality rate of individuals in their 30s by nearly 2 percent. In contrast to the U.S. data, we do not find a significant cyclical pattern in the mortality rates of infants and seniors.

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