“華師經英Seminar”第七期
題目：The long-term consequences of job displacement on health: Evidence from older cohort in urban China
時間：2019年12月12日（周四）中午12：30
地點：學院301會議室
Abstract:
The Chinese government initiated drastic urban labor market reforms since the mid-1990s which lead to mass layoffs (xia gang). This paper investigates the long-term impact of involuntary job loss on health of older cohort in urban China. We use data from the 2011 wave and the 2014 Life History wave of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), which allow us to obtain various health measures and a person’s retrospective work history. We use involuntary job loss due to business closures and plant restructuring and employ propensity score matching estimation to address the endogeneity issues. Our results show that in the long run, compared to those never been displaced, individuals who ever experienced job displacement are more likely to report worse health status, have more IADL limitations, blood pressure reading with hypertension and lower BMI. Consistently, ever displaced individuals have lower mental health scores and worse cognitive functioning. We also find that male and older people suffer more from job displacement. Channels of health care utilization and health behaviours such as drinking and smoking, can the explain the detrimental effects. The paper contributes new findings in the literature on the long-term health consequences of job displacement on health in developing countries.
張曉蕓，新葡的京集團350vip8888經濟與管理學院青年英才，澳大利亞新南威爾士大學經濟學博士。主要研究方向為勞動經濟學，健康經濟學，人口老齡化等。