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The impact of involuntary job loss on subsequent alcohol consumption by older workers — findings from the Health and Retirement Survey
Author(s)	William T Gallo, Elizabeth H Bradley, Michele Siegel
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 1, January 2001
Pages	pp S3-S9
Keywords	Redundancy ; Alcoholism ; Retirement ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Using longitudinal data from the 1992 and 1994 waves of the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the authors estimated multivariate models to assess the impact of involuntary job loss on subsequent alcohol use. Two outcomes were investigated: reported daily alcohol consumption, and onset of drinking. The analysis sample included 207 workers who experienced involuntary job loss between survey dates and a comparison group of 2,866 continuously employed workers. Involuntary job loss was not associated with number of daily drinks consumed at follow-up. However, among those who did not consume alcohol at baseline, those who suffered involuntary job loss were twice as likely as those continuously employed to start drinking by follow-up. Most of those who began drinking at follow-up reported drinking less than one drink per day. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010307223 A
Classmark	WI: ETA: G3: 3F: 7T
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