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| Effects of layoffs and plant closings on subsequent depression among older workers | | Author(s) | Jennie E Brand, Becca R Levy, William T Gallo |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 30, no 6, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp 701-721 |
| Keywords | Redundancy ; Companies ; Closure ; Depression ; Employment of older people ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Job displacement is widely considered a negative life event associated with subsequent economic decline and depression, as established by many previous studies. However, little is known about whether the form of job displacement (i.e. lay-offs vs plant closures) differentially affects depression. The authors assessed the effects of different ways in which workers are displaced on subsequent depression among American men and women nearing retirement, by using data for the 4692 participants aged younger than 70 in 2000 from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) for the five waves 1992 to 2000. They hypothesised that lay-offs would be associated with larger effects on depression than plant closings, particularly among men. The findings generally support these hypotheses. The authors found that men had significant increases in depression as a result of lay-offs, but not as a result of plant closures, whereas the reverse was true among women. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081104208 A |
| Classmark | WI: X2: 5YW: ENR: GC: 49: 3J: 7T |
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