Delayed and differential effects of the economic crisis in Sweden in the 1990s on health-related exclusion from the labour market: A health equity assessment

► The policy response to the current economic crisis in many countries raises questions about health-related impacts. ► We study the experience of the Swedish government's policy response to the 1990s recession. ► The policy response had differential consequences, hitting hardest the employment of women in the public sector. ► There was also a heavier impact on women with limiting longstanding illness in lower socioeconomic groups. ► Increases in disability pension rates for unskilled manual women with LLSI may be a delayed effect of the policy response.