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Azagba and Sharaf Health Economics Review 2011, 1:15 RESEARCH Open Access The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption Sunday Azagba* and Mesbah F Sharaf Abstract This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors: smoking and alcohol consumption, using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainly based on standard models which can model differential responses to job stress only by observed characteristics. However, the effect of job stress on smoking and drinking may largely depend on unobserved characteristics such as: self control, stress-coping ability, personality traits. | Azagba and Sharaf Health Economics Review 2011 1 15 http content 1 1 15 o Health Economics Review a SpringerOpen Journal RESEARCH Open Access The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption Sunday Azagba and Mesbah F Sharaf Abstract This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors smoking and alcohol consumption using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainly based on standard models which can model differential responses to job stress only by observed characteristics. However the effect of job stress on smoking and drinking may largely depend on unobserved characteristics such as self control stress-coping ability personality traits and health preferences. Accordingly we use a latent class model to capture heterogeneous responses to job stress. Our results suggest that the effects of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption differ substantially for at least two types of individuals light and heavy users. In particular we find that job stress has a positive and statistically significant impact on smoking intensity but only for light smokers while it has a positive and significant impact on alcohol consumption mainly for heavy drinkers. These results provide suggestive evidence that the mixed findings in previous studies may partly be due to unobserved individual heterogeneity which is not captured by standard models. Keywords Job stress job strain smoking intensity alcohol consumption unobserved heterogeneity latent class model 1. Background The work environment has witnessed dramatic changes in recent years as a result of globalization competition technological advances and economic uncertainty. Working conditions are now characterized by a high work load an effort-reward imbalance less job security and the continual need to update skills 1 . Consequently there is a growing concern that the workplace has .

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