HEALTH EFFECTS OF DOWNSIZING SURVIVAL

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ahammer, Alexander; Grubl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
• 署名单位: Johannes Kepler University Linz; Johannes Kepler University Linz
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01338
• 发表日期: 2025-09
• 页码: 1388-1405
• 关键词: job loss; MENTAL-HEALTH; sickness absence; care utilization; great recession; chronic stress; heart-disease; mortality; unemployment; insecurity

摘要

We show that downsizing has substantial negative effects on the health of workers who remain in the firm. We study mass layoff (ML) sur-vivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a fewyears in the future, as a control group. Based on high-quality administrativedata, we find evidence that downsizing has persistent effects on mental andphysical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fear-ing for their own jobs. We also show that health effects due to downsizingimply nonnegligible costs for firms.