Layoff Experience in Adulthood and Premature Death Among US Working-Age Adults, 1979–2022.
Objectives. To investigate the association between layoff experience over 33 peak working years and subsequent premature death. Methods. This open cohort study involved data from 7234 working-age adults who took part in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Cumulative layoff experience...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 116; no. 8; pp. 1180 - 1189 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=195376212&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 195376212 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00900036 APH jtl: American Journal of Public Health issn: 00900036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2026 vid: 116 iid: 8 pid: 44 pub: American Public Health Association artinfo: ui: 195376212 10.2105/AJPH.2026.308432 ppf: 1180 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Layoff Experience in Adulthood and Premature Death Among US Working-Age Adults, 1979–2022. aug: au: Yu, Xuexin Kezios, Katrina L. Swift, Samuel L. Moropoulos, Kaylie N. Zeki Al Hazzouri, Adina affil: Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY. Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. College of Population Health, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM. su: United States Employee psychology Mortality Unemployment Life expectancy Dismissal of employees Downsizing of organizations Public health Adults Mortality risk factors Risk assessment Descriptive statistics Longitudinal method Financial stress Confidence intervals Proportional hazards models sug: subj: Employee psychology Mortality Unemployment Life expectancy Dismissal of employees Downsizing of organizations Public health Adults United States Health and Welfare Funds Mortality risk factors Risk assessment Descriptive statistics Longitudinal method Financial stress Confidence intervals Proportional hazards models ab: Objectives. To investigate the association between layoff experience over 33 peak working years and subsequent premature death. Methods. This open cohort study involved data from 7234 working-age adults who took part in the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Cumulative layoff experience from the ages of 16 to 55 years was operationalized as the number of jobs ending in a layoff from 1979 to 2012. Mortality outcomes were assessed from 2012 to 2022, when the participants were younger than 65 years. Results. Layoff experience was associated with 18.71 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.09, 36.23; 1 layoff vs no layoffs) and 32.61 (95% CI = 2.66, 62.56; 2 or more layoffs vs no layoffs) excess deaths per 10 000 person-years. In a fully adjusted Cox proportional hazards model, experiencing 1 layoff and 2 or more layoffs (vs no layoffs) was associated with 1.23 (95% CI = 1.00, 1.51) and 1.30 times (95% CI = 0.96, 1.77) higher hazards of premature death from 2012 to 2022 (P trend =.02). The observed association did not statistically differ by timing of layoffs, sex/gender, or race/ethnicity. Conclusions. Layoffs may be an important determinant of mortality among US workers. (Am J Public Health. 2026;116(8):1180–1188. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308432) pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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