Our study proposes to analyse how individual health is affected - both in short and long term - when recessions cause uncertainty on the labour market. To achieve this objective, we propose to exploit two major recessions in France - the 'Great Recession' of the late 2000s and the Covid-19 recession - as well as the particularly rich administrative data of the EDP-Santé. The two main objective are as follows: (i) to provide a clear analysis of the short- and long-term health effects of the labour-market uncertainty generated by the 'Great Recession' of the late 2000s. (ii) to measure the collateral effect of the labour market uncertainty generated by the Covid-19 crisis on the mental health of the self-employed.
