Does Job Loss Shorten Life? Marcus Eliason, Donald Storrie From: Journal of Human Resources Volume 44, Number 2, Spring 2009 pp. 277-302 | 10.1353/jhr.2009.0020 Abstract Abstract: This paper examines the impact of job loss on overall and cause-specific mortality. Using linked employer-employee data, we identified the workers displaced due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987 and 1988. Hence, we have ext hide