Titre :
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Are recessions really good for your health ? Evidence from Canada. (2012)
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Auteurs :
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Hideki ARIIZUMI ;
Tammy SCHIRLE ;
Department of Economics. Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo. ON. CAN
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 74, n° 8, 2012)
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Pagination :
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1224-1231
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Canada
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Chômage
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Mortalité
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Epidémiologie
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Homme
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Amérique
;
Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[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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